Hi there.
I was wondering if Haiku can run *.avi files (xvid, divx, etc…) standard definition (no HD) on an old Celeron 488Mhx and 128MB of RAM (EDIT: and a Geforce4 MX440).
I tried Puppy (very small and light Linux ditro) and GeeXboX, but on this system the video is laggy and therefore can’t watch anything on it.
Is Haiku faster then the OP before mentioned?
P.S. What about DVD’s?
Have you tried VLC? I doubt it’ll work for you very well but you could give it a try.
Well i can almost play medium res *avi on my dual PII@300Mhz so I would imagine yours would fair a bit better at video
VLC can play dvds it would be worth a try anyway.
Celeron is a very weak processsor but it might possible still. And if it’s to slow on Haiku, then you could try BeOS it’s still a bit faster than Haiku on older harware.
Thanks for the replies guys! I appreciate it! 
I guess that trying is of no harm, so I’ll be doing the tests one of these days and let you guys know how it went.
Thanks again!
In basic testing I found VLC on Haiku can run a full-screen (1024x768) video clip on my old PIII-700 (256MB RAM, GeForce 2MX PCI) while playing an MP3 via CL-Amp.
Media Player seems pretty inefficient on “older” hardware. It plays an MP3 with snaps and pops (if at all) while playing the video is pretty pointless.
Hi.
Anyone knows where I can find BeOS to download? It’s a free operating system right?
Thanks.
you can find the download here http://www.haikuware.com/directory/start-download/development/app-installation/beos-5-pe-max-edition
The site that usually hosts BeOSMax seems to have ran out of bandwidth for the moment though you can still get if from haikuware.com
Burning a BeOs Image is a bit different than Haiku since the .ISO format doesn’t support BFS on most platforms
use Imgburn on windows to burn the .cue and .bin file (the .cue is the one you will select to burn the bin which contains the data is used by the cue file indirectly)
or I think K3B should be able to do it on Linux
Thanks cb88 for the link and the tips on how to burn the image file.
Have a nice day!
I’m sorry, but I have some problems and can’t figure what should I burn.
I downloaded the file of the link you gave me and extracted it. These are the files in the archive:
amd_1024_r5.0.3_boot_cd.img 1,47 MB amd_r5.0.5_boot_cd.img 1,47 MB BeOS5PEMaxEditionV4b1.iso 640,00 MB FLOPPY MAKER call me under BeOS 405 bytes FLOPPY MAKER call me under DOS or Windows.BAT 26 bytes FLOPPY.IMG 1,41 MB FloppyIdeRepl.img 1,41 MB IDE REPL FLOPPY MAKER call me under BeOS 412 bytes IDE REPL FLOPPY MAKER call me under DOS or Windows.BAT 33 bytes intel_1024_r5.0.3_boot_cd.img 1,47 MB intel_r5.0.3_boot_cd.img 1,47 MB MaxV4b1_Amd.cue 195 bytes MaxV4b1_Amd.toc 148 bytes MaxV4b1_Amd_1024.cue 200 bytes MaxV4b1_Amd_1024.toc 153 bytes MaxV4b1_Intel.cue 197 bytes MaxV4b1_Intel.toc 150 bytes MaxV4b1_Intel_1024.cue 202 bytes MaxV4b1_Intel_1024.toc 155 bytes Rawrite.exe 13,97 KB
Now…I have imgburn in windows xp, but I don’t know what file I should select to burn.
Based on the file dimension I thought BeOS5PEMaxEditionV4b1.iso (since it’s 640,00 MB), but when it seams it’s not a bootable disk.
Then I saw you said I should select the cue file…but there are quite a few and I’m not sure which one I should select. (well I guess I should choose one of the ones that says Intel, since I have a Celeron, but what’s the difference between these (if any):
MaxV4b1_Intel.toc 150 bytes
MaxV4b1_Intel_1024.cue 202 bytes
)
Thanks.
EDIT: Ok. Never mind…I found that the 1024 limits the system memory to 1GB (1024MB), while the other has no limit (and will crash on systems with more then 1024mb of System Ram + Video Ram). 
I burned MaxV4b1_Intel_1024.cue with imgburn but when I insert the disk it says it’s not a bootable disk.
?
These are the files when I open the disk:
H:\>dir
Volume in drive H is BeOS_Boot
Volume Serial Number is BB70-36B1
Directory of H:\
31/01/2006 09:10 2.048 boot.catalog
31/01/2006 09:10 1.474.560 r5.0.3.1024.untested.zbeosintel.r503.boot.tg
z.floppy.img
2 File(s) 1.476.608 bytes
0 Dir(s) 0 bytes free
I guess that Windows can’t see the rest since those files are written with a filesystem windows can’t recognize, but why can’t I boot?
Alright I sorted it out.
I don’t know why, but on the computer I always use (E8500, 4GB RAM, 7800GTX etc…) it wouldn’t boot, but once I put the disk in the Celeron 488Mhx it run!
Well BeOS is fantastic! I tried loading a video with the specs shown below and the video was super fluent and the cpu never maxed out!!!
I was (I still am!) completely blown away by the ability of BeOS to run xvid/divx fluently on my old Celeron! No windows/linux system was able to do so!
If it can even use the tv-out of my geforce4 440mx (s-video), I might as well resurrect this pc and use it as a small htpc!
I’ll try Haiku soon and see how it performs and might as well use this one (if there’s no big drop in performance).
Video Format : MPEG-4 Visual Format profile : Simple @ L3 Format settings, BVOP : Yes Format settings, QPel : No Format settings, GMC : No warppoints Format settings, Matrix : Default Muxing mode : Packet Bitstream Codec ID : XVID Codec ID/Hint : XviD Duration : 1h 2min Bit rate : 1 100 Kbps Width : 640 pixel Height : 272 pixel Display aspect ratio : 2.35 Frame rate : 23,976 fps Resolution : 24 bits Colorimetry : 4:2:0 Scan type : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.264 Stream size : 494 Mb (71%) Writing library : XviD 1.0.3 (UTC 2004-12-20) Audio Format : AC-3 Format/Info : Audio Coding 3 Codec ID : 2000 Duration : 1h 2min Bit rate mode : Costant Bit rate : 448 Kbps Channel(s) : 6 channels Channel positions : Front: L C R, Surround: L R, LFE Sampling rate : 48,0 KHz Stream size : 201 Mb (29%) Alignment : Split Audio Interleave, duration : 42 ms (1,00 frames) Interleave, preload duration : 500 ms
I’m happy! 