System Requirements

[Chris Jensen]

Perhaps i should rephrase.
My intention was to setup a ~400Mhz machine with a decent video card as the
server, and have it streaming full screen DVD content to either a 400Mhz
celeron or itself, or both.
Is this plausible?

----- Original Message -----
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu>
To: <vlc at videolan.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 4:43 AM
Subject: Re: System Requirements


> system requirements are significantly related to the bit-rate of the
> stream the codec used and to the extent that things like yuv acceleration
> are available in your videocard-driver.
>
> You won't be decoding a 2Mb/s mpeg2-stream on a pentium-166 without
> dropping some frames... but it does work on a celeron overclocked to
> 550mhz.
>
> joelja
>
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Chris Jensen wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > Sorry to anyone who's already seen this on vls, but i didn't get any
> > response, so I thought I might be able to get some help from this
mailing
> > list.
> > I've been interested in video lan for several months now and was
wondering
> > what sort of system requirements it has as I couldn't find these on the
web
> > site.
> > The info I'm interested in is how much data it puts through the network,
> > what minimum system is required for the server and client systems for
the
> > client to view in full screen with no choppiness.
> > Also, what are the requirements if the client and server were to be on
the
> > same machine?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Chris Jensen
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Joel Jaeggli        joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu
> Academic User Services      consult at gladstone.uoregon.edu
>      PGP Key Fingerprint: 1DE9 8FCA 51FB 4195 B42A 9C32 A30D 121E
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> It is clear that the arm of criticism cannot replace the criticism of
> arms.  Karl Marx -- Introduction to the critique of Hegel's Philosophy of
> the right, 1843.
>
>
>
>