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Originally Posted by bopdude
Hi all, quick daft question, I have just 'saved' my in-laws old laptop from the scappy ( good move or not, we will see ) There's no make on the outside but that's not important, it's has a 233mhz intel processor, 32 mb ram, 2 gig hdd and a cd rom ( no dvd ) I want to use this as a portable media player for films ( CD ) now I've tried a couple but playback is jerky, I thought it might be WMP not liking the discs so tried VLC player, still no joy. I was thinking it could just be the age and spec ( lack of ) of the machine, and OS, it had ME on it, now it's got '98.
So what I'm looking for is an OS with a minimium install, resource friendly, just enough to have a media player that works, anything out there ??
TIA
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its not totally impossible but your not going to get much of anything playing thats not low bitrate mpeg2 on the 233, you MIGHT be able to find the info and clock it at 333 and so be in a slightly better position.
the memory is the killer though, you could try slax but i dont think it will work with only 32meg
http://www.slax.org/requirements.php
you can make your custom slax cd from windows if you like
http://myslax.bonsonno.org/
it may work with a puppy linux but iv never tryed that tbo.
the main thing is getting the ram up, but it will also depend a hell of a lot on the built-in GFX chip in there, if its a first gen 3d chip that doesnt even have a directX 3d driver available ,its unlikely to be any better on any linux for playing mpeg2 or small divX/Xvid for instance.
does the lappy even boot a live cd or have that ability in bios, thats one of the first things to check, it might be just fine for wireless messageboarding though so it might not be a total loss.
i find MPC better for dvb-T ts playback (upto about 3mbit/s without stalling) on my 450mhz intel lappy (96meg)than VLC , but vlc is better for some other stuff,jtvlan etc.