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		anthk 1 day ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, ... Mp4 is the container. H264 is the video codec.

dmitrygr 23 hours ago [–]

got me, it was DivX and XviD which are indeed newer and fancier than MPEG2

anthk 15 hours ago | [–]

And still much easier to play than h264. A Pentium II with NetBSD was more than enough.

Nowadays on an n270 CPU based netbook I use mpv and yt-dlp capped to 420p, even if I can play 720p@30FPS.

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