What can an A1200 do

[Matt_H]

With only the standard 2MB of RAM, your options are pretty limited in terms of eye candy. As already said, MagicWB is probably your best option.

As far as video is concerned, short of native Amiga animations, you're out of luck. MPEG, let alone Divx, is too much for a stock A1200.

Consider getting an accelerator as soon as possible.

[Matt_H]

I don't know the PPC situation with Divx, but I got about 2FPS out of MooVId on my 060 with no audio. MPEG-1 works fine however.

[Matt_H]

@ Egg-Chen

The problem is that AVI/MOV is no longer descriptive enough. Even though a file may have the extension .avi or .mov, the actual format of the file can be completely different, thanks to the zillion different codecs in use these days. So while an .avi file that dates from when that text was written does fly on an 060, a typical one that was encoded yesterday will choke.

It would be much more helpful if the files had a .dvx extension - then we'd actually know what sort of file we're dealing with!