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I'm very interested in an answer for this question too
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Hi, thank you for answer, i dont have that PC running yet, so i cannot try it. And i mean not comparison to WMP, because i will only receive the stream, no direct file playing. Normal Divx is on that computer unplayable, but i was thinking that over network it should be faster.Try it and see. 350 MHz is a bit "light", though VLC seems to do better performance-wise than, say, WMP.
For that processor, make sure you aren't running other apps, just to see if it'll play OK
But you are using different coding or not? Maybe that one will be faster or can be setup to not be so CPU extensive? On server i dont mind... So maybe some mode that it will use more network load but less CPU load?Unfortunately, receiving the file over the network (receiving a stream), vs. playing the file locally, uses about the same CPU power. You are decoding a compressed set of audio and video data, doing a bunch of math transformations, plus displaying it.