On Tue 2008-11-18 11:21:02 UTC-0500, Gary Hartl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have an old laptop (Dell Inspiron 7500), P3 550mhz, 256mb ram 20 gig hdd. > > I am wondering what the validity of putting FBSD on it running VLC or > something like that feeding to my tv.
550 MHz will be a bit slow for playing DivX/XviD movies, especially if they're high definition (beyond 640x480 approx). Presumably Windows is installed on it at the moment, so you can give the Windows version of VLC a test run. The RAM & HDD specs are fine. Provided the laptop's integrated video and networking is supported, you should be good to go. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"