HW Requirements for the client?

[Valerie19]

Hi All,
can somebody tell me what are the HW requirements for VideoLAN player? Can i play movie (divX, mpeg2) streams over ethernet with 350 MHz CPU?
Thanks to all!
Valerie

[videoip]

I'm very interested in an answer for this question too
cheers

[markfm]

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

[Valerie19]

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

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.
I am able to read 8 MB/s from that network (or more, but it is slow harddrive there).
Thank you for any answer.
Valerie

[markfm]

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.

[Guest]

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.

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?
normal video DIVX is about 1MBit/s or not?
I am sorry for disturbing, for me it is quite important,
Thank You,
Valerie