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Older laptop playing DIVx

  • 20-09-2005 7:13am
    #1
    pontovic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 658 ✭✭✭


    Hi

    I have a laptop that I'm trying to play some divx movies on. Here is the spec

    Intel Celeron 367mhz
    128mb RAM ( not sure which kind )
    4gb hard drive
    Windows XP PRO w/service pack 2
    2mb Video card

    Anytime I try to play a divx on this laptop, windows media player and the divx player keep crashing. Would this be because the laptop is simply not fast enough to play these files ? The size of the video is about 512*384 I think.


Comments

  • #2
    Blogoffmen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 80 ✭✭Blogoffmen


    exactly,

    you better be lookin along the lines of win98 winme or maybe 2000.

    EDIT:
    Your laptop will never be a great Divx machine unfortunately.

    regards


  • #3
    Stephen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    Even still, I doubt that CPU is fast enough to decode divx fast enough for a watchable framerate. I agree with Blogoffmen though, running XP on that is madness.


  • #4
    kas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 59 ✭✭kas


    It is probably fast enough, just.

    I have a PII 400, 128MB PC100 and it can play them fine.

    Trick is to reduce the windows colour depth to 16 bit (down from 24/32 bit).


  • #5
    popey21
    Closed Accounts Posts: 328 ✭✭popey21


    Install media player 6.4 and ffdshow and lower the post processing to the lowest . should play fine


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