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XGA Question

twilight_singer · 2007-10-17 14:11:28

Hi, would anyone be able to tell me how much memory would be required to play video in 8 bit colour on an XGA Screen?

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17-10-2007 3:11pm

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twilight_singer

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Hi, would anyone be able to tell me how much memory would be required to play video in 8 bit colour on an XGA Screen?

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#2 17-10-2007 11:44pm
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XGA at 256 colours means you need 1MB of Video Memory on the video card.

The minimum amount of RAM ?
16MB because a 486 running windows 3.1 could play videos slowly back in the days

The real question you wanted to ask is "I'm running windows/whatever and am using realpain/media player/vlc to play videos"

or you could say "I've got a PC with X MB of ram is this enough ?"

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