I tried a little experiment tonight. I wanted to see if my Artigo Pico-ITX machine could act as a Hulu client. I cleared off the machine and installed Ubuntu 8.10. After installing the flash plug-in for Firefox I pulled up Hulu and loaded a 30 second clip from Family Guy. The audio was perfect, but the video was very choppy. I checked the resource monitor and the CPU was just getting hammered. I guess I'm a little disappointed that even with a 1GHz processor and 1GB of memory, this little machine can't display streaming video. YouTube suffers from the same stutter. This is unfortunate, as I had hoped to connect this box to my HDTV as a quick and dirty web video streamer.
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