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Old 2006-10-15, 15:25   Link #8
Gunboat Diplomat
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Waterloo, Ontario
Age: 49
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Originally Posted by Lambda View Post
I remember when people were arguing that we had to progress to h264, upgrading insufficiently powerful computers where necessary, so fansubbers could produce smaller files and save bandwidth.
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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