That should defintiely work, I've run it on slower machines. It depends a lot on your graphics card too. As for video playback, if you want to manipulate the video, then you should convert it to a JPEG (aka MJPEG) codec. .mov is a pretty common container format for JPEG videos.
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On Nov 30, 2011, at 11:08 AM, Nicola Pandini wrote:
Hi list! I'm trying to use an old laptop with a Celeron 2,6Ghz to playback some videos with a basic GEM chain (pix_film, pix_gain, pix_texture), but the performances are very poor. It's only due to the crappy celeron :-) ? What are the minimum requirements to play a video with GEM? Is there any optimization possible, like using videos encoded with a lighter video codec, or something like this? I'm using Debian with open video drivers (ATI dropped the support for the laptop's video card).
Thanks!
-- Nicola
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