From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: andrey mirtchovski To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] dvd decoding/playing In-Reply-To: <60847621be6faa6e1719ac8c929bcdbb@terzarima.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 07:35:15 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: fff417b0-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 I've done it with a celeron 900 (T23) running FreeBSD (and Windows before that). With FBSD the only requirement was to have the CDROM drive in DMA mode instead of the PIO it was defaulted to (choppy otherwise). andrey On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Charles Forsyth wrote: > does anyone know how powerful an x86 i'd need to do > dvd decoding and playing with a good bit of spare capacity? > i was hoping to use (perhaps) EPIA 800 but i wondered if anyone actually > knew, before i went ahead and bought one. actually, i was hoping > to use a non-x86 but i get the impression that might be more > expensive and less practical. > > i tried a google search but i didn't find the right words. >