imachode

i'm wanting to get a laptop that will be used almost exclusively for watching divx encoded video (specifically friends. .heh..) anyhoo, i was wondering if anyone knew the minimum requirements (comp spec. wise..) to play such files.

thanks.

spigidygak

One thing though, if the divx is compressed at a higher rate, some older comps will not display the full fps. But the video and sound will stay in sync.

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imachode

heh.. sup spig, long time no see.. anyhoo
well, i tried playing on a old p166, 32mb ram and it played like crap. the sound was great but the video was wayyyy laggy and not even close to sync'ed. so i tried playing 300k/s real media and that was better, yet not close to what it was supposed to be. so hmm.. i think i'm willing to pay for more ram if that'll fix my problem (i'm only wanting to play divx, not encode it). lmk what you guys think.. thanks again

Bires

I've been into DIVX for only a few weeks now, but I've learned a lot. Media player using the non-hacked DIVX codecs (the only ones you should use) are fairly taxing. If you can get something in the 400 range, using a sound card that has a very small cpu load, you should be good. However, just like mp3's were years ago, some movies, as spigidygak said, are recorded at a very high rate, so your comp needs to decode more info per frame, and that can get ugly on lower-speed comps.

I record and encode around 1300, and they barely play on my P2-400.

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