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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

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From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
 
> > A video card with motion compensation. You need drivers and other
> > things. If you have a 600MHz processor, you should not need this.
> 
> I read somewhere that we would need a faster video card for this 
> speed cpu.

I don't think so. I use the vesa driver from MPlayer and it has
decent playback. Xine can do the same with X. This is on a 300MHz
Pentium II.

> I think they recommended at least 900MHz for a regular 
> video card. I presume by drivers you mean I would need to recompile 
> the kernel (as for framebuffer) and who knows if SW7.1 even 
> supports this.

No, I don't. MPlayer has its own driver architecture.

> We already have a standalone DVD player (found at 
> the curb, working, with TV - amazing what people throw out around 
> here, maybe because the TV was only 13"?)

I had one practically given to me, $5, all the bells and whistles.

> > I may need to research the various free pdf viewers.
> Are there others besides xpdf and gs?

Yes. Many of them require a toolkit like gtk, but some even do
the fill-in forms.

> >> I should try pstopnm from netpbm next.
> >
> > pstopnm just uses ghostscript.
> 
> gs can directly convert to pbm format too.  -sDEVICE=pbm

pstopnm seems redundant then.

David
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