Maurice Kinal wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 MK> Hey Roy!

 MK> Jul 24 04:08 05, Roy J. Tellason wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 RJT> Somebody sent me a cdrom that had an ".mp3" movie file on it 

 MK> Do you mean an mpeg?  mp3 is a digital audio format isn't it? 

Yeah,  I do.  :-)

 RJT> recently,  and I was pleased to find that xine,  which had been 
 RJT> installed on my workstation but which I never used,  worked right 
 RJT> off and played it just fine.  It was apparent to me the limitations 
 RJT> of the machine's speed,  but that's another issue entirely.  :-)

 MK> Right.  For creation I'd say 800MHz would be the low end although
 MK> it is possible to do that with less but not in real time without
 MK> serious degradation of the final product.  For playing it depends
 MK> on the frequencies, resolutions, etc.  Of course the high end
 MK> quality stuff would require a high speed CPU to get the most out of
 MK> any digital format.  Same with streaming high quality audio/visual
 MK> over a network and there the network interfaces also come into
 MK> play. 

Well,  considering I'm still stuck with 10baseT for a network,  I think
I'll stick to just audio for now over the LAN,  and considering the
workstation is a 366 Celeron,  I don't think I did too badly at all.  :-)

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