Re: Linux on a 486 for viewing DivX, is it good?

From: MikeyD (m_donaghy50_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/14/04 

Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 11:23:58 +0000

> Hi you all,
> I have an old 486 wich mount 8MB RAM and a video card Trident
> TGUI9440AGI (I don't know its memory size).
> I am wondering if I could attach it to my TV for watching some DivX wich
> are saved on another PC in the LAN, maybe in streaming using Videolan. I
> could mount a small distro of Linux (vectorlinux?) and install the
> minimum software requirements for the purpose. Surely I would need a
> video card wich supports TV out.

Either that or a vga rf modulator. But it sounds possible. I'd suggest
installing a dedicated video playing distribution, such as Geexbox. (You
can install it to hd, but you'll need to burn it to cd and boot from cd,
just borrow the cd drive from your proper computer, or put the hard drive
in your main computer.) Get the custom geexbox maker and put the mplayer
divx codecs package in the right place.
>
> Do you think it is possible? Maybe the quality of reproduction will be
> very low but could it at least run a divx? What am I going to expect
> from a configuration like this?

Very poor quality. I don't think you'll be able to get more than 8fps out of
it, unless you run low resolution.
>
> Please do not laugh.. I have an old PC that i would not throw away since
> it runs fine!!
>
Yeah, np.

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