How is it doing that?

“Now from the outset, you should know that my system is
extremely underpowered where high definition video playback is
concerned. I’m running Debian testing on a laptop with a 1.73 GHz
single-core processor, 758MB shared video RAM, and a 128MB Intel
GMA 900 integrated graphics card.

“Incredibly enough, it turns out that this humble setup is
capable of playing almost every video file that I can find, even
with compiz effects fully enabled and just a base install of vlc
media player.”

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