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	Jaffa	2008-04-25 , 19:33
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Originally Posted by vman81

Now I haven't looked into those tools, and assumed it's some kind of transcoding solution, like tversity/orb etc, and that requires alot more cpu power than simple decoding.

The initial development of mediaserv was done on a 700MHz VIA C3 box transcoding DVD rips to watchable quality with CPU to spare.

The NAS is also a situation when mounting and playing directly is a good option.

This is really only an option, though, if the video is in a format which can be played back on a current tablet. Most of mine, at least, can't - especially if they're MPEG2-TS dumps from a DVB-T (Freeview) card.

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