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abhinow wrote:I am using a 9 year old celeron 433MHz PC. I found Mint running great on my PC! Even better than XP! I am amazed with the Full Featured 7th realease of Mint

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=628
So Mint runs fine, then no problem previous experience with another distribution is history..
--or do you mean you have a supercomputer running Mint now, but you are concerned that it won't run well on a 433MHz Celeron PC; if so you are right..

all reasons for some concern when running a modern OS, with a full suite of services and applications..

• low processor speed
• cpu type being Celeron
• amount of memory (RAM)
• the video card type

• Mplayer is a media player
• Xine is a media player
• Mplayer sometimes uses a xine backend component for some functions

--its a mix & match situation.. thus there is no mplayer vs mplayer/xine application comparison..

You could try installing VLC from the repos and see if the files will play. VLC will usually play anything you can throw at it.