Minimum speed for watching video?

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Txiasaeia · #1 Post by **Txiasaeia** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 3:43 pm

I've usually got my X31 set at 200MHz when I'm on battery power, but I'm thinking about putting a couple of movies on my HD for a trip. What's the minimum CPU speed I'll need for non-choppy video playback? Doesn't matter to me whether they're compressed or uncompressed - if it's only one or two movies that's only 10GB, and it's not permanent. Thanks!

Txiasaeia · #2 Post by **Txiasaeia** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 8:11 am

Anybody?

#3 Post by **K. Eng** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 12:41 pm

As far as I know, the Pentium M's lowest operating speed is 600 MHz, although Windows tends to report this incorrectly from time to time.

Software DVD playback became feasible with a 300 MHz Pentium II processor, so even if your Pentium M was stuck at 200 MHz it could probably handle at least DVD playback with no problems.

Compression requires some overhead to decode the data, but the amount of overhead depends on the codec.

Txiasaeia · #4 Post by **Txiasaeia** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 1:42 pm

On super power saver the speed goes down to 221 MHz - this is reported by Windows, though.

epbrown · #5 Post by **epbrown** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 8:20 pm

400Mhz is the lowest I'd go - you can get playback below that but it's choppy and multi-tasking is impossible.

Emanuel

Minimum speed for watching video?

Minimum speed for watching video?

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