The Glade 4.0

I have a boneyard pc: Athalon 1.2 256 mb ram and a paltry 16 Meg Tv out card. It's running windows xp and it's sole purpose is to run hulu and like sites to my TV. The video seems laggy ever so slightly, but the audio streams well with no stopping or stuttering
1. Am I right in assuming the card is the bottleneck?
2. Would switching To Linux (from xp) help and avoid having to sink money into the project?

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

What resolution are you running?

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

800 by 600 xp doesn't allow lower

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Linux is more efficient than Windows and is more responsive in general. Something you may want to try - I had issues with audio not being in sync with video I composed on XP (I used several different video composition software packages, same results). After MANY iterations of install and test, it turned out that something associated with .net was the culprit. I reinstalled and did not elect to put the .net stuff on and everything was good.

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In time, this too shall pass.

I might just try the Linux changeover. now that I think about it. i've probably got another drive so I can swap and go back if I'm unhappy. Can anyone reccomend a distro for what i'm trying to accomplish.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Mythbuntu

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