[ltp] Old Thinkpad with Neomagic NM2200 (MagicMedia 256AV) video/audio chip

[rrkrr]

Richard and Damien,
Thanks for the assistance.  This machine seems to play downloaded video
with mplayer.  I gather there are several ways to save youtube videos -
I plan to give that a try.  I'm also reding up on fixing the DSDT and
compiling a custom kernel.  This is just for the satisfaction of making
the thing work - in the end it will still be a 256 MHz laptop ....

Bob

Richard Neill wrote:
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>
> Damien Challet wrote:
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>> I am afraid that this laptop is not powerful enough to play youtube
>> videos. At least, I have never managed to achieve that (and I have
>> hacked mine with a 450Mhz Pentium III).
>
> My X20 (600 MHz PIII) is just on-the-cusp of not quite being able to
> deal with youtube. It can, however play video with mplayer. As I
> understand it, the flash-player used by youtube is pretty inefficient
> at using CPU, and has no GPU acceleration.
>
> I haven't investigated it myself, but you might find that one of the
> alternatives
> such as Gnash is better, or in some cases, you can get a firefox
> plugin that allows you to download and save the youtube video; then
> play it directly with mplayer.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Richard
>