Is an AMD 2100+ enough for blu ray?

[LxMxFxD4]

I finally pulled the trigger on a 42" Toshiba and its being shipped to me right now. I had this bright idea of pulling my wicked old (2003) AMD 2100+ out of storage and buying an $90 Blu Ray SATA drive in there and a DVI to HDMI cable. Blu Ray for a cost of (for this project) $100 or so.

I also like this idea because I can use the comp as an SNES emulator too.

But then I got to thinking:

Is 2100+ enough to decode bluray in windows xp?

Video Card wiould be an old old old Nvidia 5700 Ultra 128MB AGP I think is in there (again, 2003 but has DVI) which can do the resolution np.

Comp has 768 MB of Ram, 80GB Sata Drive, AMD 2100+

Someone also told me XP wont let you run blu ray. Sorry if this is the case as im extremely ignorant on this stuff (again, bought the tv yesterday!)

If it can't be done in windows, can it be done in Linux? And SNES Emulator run in say, WINE?

Thoughts appreciated

EDIT:
I know powerdvd says Dualcore 3800+ AMD min requirements to play blu-ray, but it also says need 2600+ to play DVD which is absurd. I was watching DVDs on a celeron 766mhz back in like 1999. Just thought I'd add that.

 

[ksheets]

This will in no way play blu-ray. I bought the LG combo and tried to play in my old opteron 144 with 7900GS...it was in no way watchable. I even tried with my 8800GTS in the opteron system.
Winxp should be fine though..I didnt have any problem with the software

 

[LxMxFxD4]

Originally posted by: ksheets
This will in no way play blu-ray. I bought the LG combo and tried to play in my old opteron 144 with 7900GS...it was in no way watchable. I even tried with my 8800GTS in the opteron system.
Winxp should be fine though..I didnt have any problem with the software

Ahh thanks, sir. Opteron144 >> XP 2100+ !

Oh well, it was worth a shot. Too bad I just sold my old x2 3800+ on CL. With it o/ced as I had it woulda done this!

 

[ksheets]

yeh tell me about it...i was real bummed when I found out the system couldnt handle it. I ended up putting another $150 in it and got a microatx case and AMD chip/mb combo...at least I finally have an htpc that actually fits on the shelf

 

[XMan]

It will with a new video card. My son's HTPC runs on an XP-Mobile. Uses an AGP 3650, which handles the Blu-Ray decode.

 

[BassBomb]

Grab a amd 790 or something with the onboard.. pair that with a dual core chip and you will be fine

the onboard video will do most of the work if you have the right codecs/programs

 

[swbsam]

yep, tried it on a pentium d 805 with AGP video = no go. Upgraded to a simple ($37) amd x2 low voltage (45w) and a 780g chipset board and it works fine, because the 780g features acceleration

 

[swbsam]

Or just buy a blu-ray player - i got a sony one for $149 open box from best buy. these things often don't work out of the box and require a firmware update, so there's a lot of returns around here. Profit from ignorance!

 

[thomsbrain]

You might want to double-check whether Blu-Ray video will pass through DVI because of the new copy-protection. IIRC, digital connections have to be able to carry the copy-protection data, which HDMI does but DVI doesn't. But anyone feel free to correct me on that.

 

[Tiamat]

My 1800+ T-bred (@2ghz) w/ ATI 9800pro (@xt) was barely able to play 720P blu-ray rips. If anything happened in the background, it would stutter. 1080P was not possible at all.

 

[XMan]

Originally posted by: thomsbrain
You might want to double-check whether Blu-Ray video will pass through DVI because of the new copy-protection. IIRC, digital connections have to be able to carry the copy-protection data, which HDMI does but DVI doesn't. But anyone feel free to correct me on that.

That's why you use AnyDVDHD.

Originally posted by: Tiamat
My 1800+ T-bred (@2ghz) w/ ATI 9800pro (@xt) was barely able to play 720P blu-ray rips. If anything happened in the background, it would stutter. 1080P was not possible at all.

Stands to reason, the 9800 Pro doesn't have any hardware decode for HD codecs.

 

[sdifox]

CorAVC helps too.

 

[vshah]

my 3.0ghz p4 with coreAVC barely handles it.

 

[vshah]

my 3.0ghz p4 with coreAVC barely handles it.

 

[Oyeve]

My laptop is a c2d 2ghz proc and has built-in Intel (crap) graphics and I connected my SATA BR player to it via SATA to USB2 and it played BR movies just fine. I thought it would totaly crap out due to the lame shared memory graphics but it played rather well. It is a c2d cpu tho so I cant really say it would work on another sinlge core system.