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Originally Posted by Gunboat Diplomat
Personally, I wish this were the case.
I don't think too many people would have to upgrade their computers. While h.264 is much more computationally expensive than anything else, it'll still take a very old computer to choke on it at SD resolutions. As long as you're not doing anything else while watching the movie a five year old computer should still be able to handle it. Without any experimentation, I would guess a P3 800 or so should be good enough...
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Depends on the encode. My computer is a P3 1GHz machine, and it can play some h.264 encodes, but more often than not, will choke on most. Navigation of h.264 encoded files is also a problem, which as my comp will get to where I want it to go with the audio stream, but struggle to update the video stream.