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Were there actually Pentium M chipsets that could decode anything but MPEG2? The CPU will be struggling with most modern video formats including h.264.

• dmitrygr 8mo ago
  we were decoding 480x320 MP4 on PalmOS 5 devices in early 2000. Those were single-core in-order 200mhz ARM devices with no accelerators at all. Pentium M outperforms those easily and thus can do it too.
  • anthk 8mo ago
    Mp4 is the container. H264 is the video codec.
    • dmitrygr 8mo ago
      got me, it was DivX and XviD which are indeed newer and fancier than MPEG2
      • anthk 8mo ago
        And still much easier to play than h264. A Pentium II with NetBSD was more than enough. Nowadays on an n270 CPU based netbook I use mpv and yt-dlp capped to 420p, even if I can play 720p@30FPS.