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COMPONENT REQUIREMENTS NOTES
Software Decoder Hardware Decoder
CPU Without H/W Acc Video Card :
Celeron 300A (minumum)
PII-400+ (Recommended)

With Motion Comp. :
PII-233/266 (minumum)

With Motion Comp and iDCT :
P200 MMX (minumum)
P-166/200 MMX
RAM 64 MB (Windows minimum)
128 MB (Recommended)
SAME
VIDEO CARD Without H/W Acc Video Card :
8MB AGP Card with DirectX Overlay mixer supp. (see notes)

With H/W Acc Video Card :
See Notes
Support For Windows 9x or later and DirectDraw For a list of supported graphics cards with hardware acceleration using the following software DVD players, please refer to the links below
SOUND CARD Minimum : PCI 48kHz support

Recommended : With support for 4/6/8 speaker output and decoding acceleration (see notes).

The Best : All of the above and with Digital Output (SPDIF)

Minimum : Not Required

Recommended : Creative SB-Live series (see notes).
For a list of supported sound cards with multi-channel output and acceleration using the following software DVD players, please refer to the links below

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