On Friday 16 September 2005 04:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I just played a dvd on my ltsp workstation using the Totem Movie Player > > and got a very choppy output. On the ltsp-server the dvd played > > normally. I am trying to figure out why this is the case. > >=20 > >=20 > > My setup is; server: Mandrake 10.1 on a compaq deskpro pentium III, 500 > > Mhz, with 260 Mb of ram. The ethernet card is a 3-COM 3C905c-TXM, > > etherlink 10/100 PCI. I recently installed ltsp 4.1.1 from the > > ltsp-4.1.1-1.iso isoimage. > >=20 > >=20 > > The workstation is a compacq deskpro pentium I, 200 Mhz mmx, with 64 Mb > > ram. 3-COM 3c905-TX, 10/100 PCI. > > I'd like to know if, in that workstation, there is a rather recent=20 > graphic card. Because, if you use the graphic card buit in with a=20 > Pentium 200 Mhz, I don't think it be able to play a video, even if the=20 > mpeg2 is processed on the server.
Romain the actual graphics card is critical. I use ATI 9100/9200s and they are barely acceptable (fanless is the reason) My mate uses an nvidea 6600GT and is getting much better results (Gigabyte make a heatpipe version, fanless) James ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
