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FWIW, it works fine on my 400MHz K6/2.
Question about DIVX
Sup guys and gals,
Ok my question is what are the minimum system requirements for Divx? As in minimum processor speed and minimum memory. I am having trouble watching it on my laptop w/ 450 mhz amd k6/2 and 160mb of ram. Just wondering what are the bare minimums.
Any help would be appreciated.
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FWIW, it works fine on my 400MHz K6/2.
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It's a weird thing. Divx will play fine on my 533 k6-2 196mb machine but diddnt play on my 550 k6-2 128mb machine.
it all boils down to ur video card and wether or not u have some sort of 3d chip. The AMD k6-2's are not geared toward movie stuff but can provided ur video card is equiped with certain 3d chips.
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FYI---the 550mhz machine had a 3dfx Voodoo3 3000 and the 533mhz machine has built in crappy AGP graphics. So your theory is not entirely true.
i dont think 3D chipsets would have a bearing on DivX at all. Granted most 3D cards like Nvida's Geforce2/3/4's all have good 2D rendering speeds anyway and that could be the connection. The faster your CPU can changed the pixels on your screen the better the playback will be video card wise!Originally posted by cenwesi
it all boils down to ur video card and wether or not u have some sort of 3d chip. The AMD k6-2's are not geared toward movie stuff but can provided ur video card is equiped with certain 3d chips.
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The minumun that I have ever seen a DIVX movie played on (this was done by me) was a P200MMX overclocked to 225mhz with 16megs of ram and a 2meg graphics card..
The player I used was a dos one called QuickView, but I actually ran it through windows 95 (in dos mode) to make use of virtual memory..
I believe this to be the lowest system it will rn on, any advances??
3D chips have nothing to do with DivX. My AMD 400 uses a Matrox Millennium video card. No 3D there.
I have not been able to make DivX work on my P90 laptop at more than 1 frame a minute, and my spare P120 machine was about the same. I would assume that MMX CPUs are absolutely required due to the large amount of floating poing calculations required.
Player: Pentium 166MMX, Amptron 598LMR MB w/onboard Sound, Video, LAN, 10.2 Gig Fujitsu Laptop HD, Arise 865 DC-DC Converter, Lexan Case, Custom Software w/Voice Interface, MS Access Based Playlists
Car: 1986 Mazda RX-7 Turbo (highly modded), 1978 RX-7 Beater (Dead, parting out), 2001 Honda Insight
"If one more body-kitted, cut-spring-lowered, farty-exhausted Civic revs on me at an intersection, I swear I'm going to get out of my car and cram their ridiculous double-decker aluminium wing firmly up their rump."
Okay, I have an update on this..
It turns out that my graphics card has some sort of 3D or hardware decoder, I don't know, but I believe that that is the only reason it works..Not bad considering I only paid $45 for the mobo, P200MMX CPU, Cyrix 166 CPU, Case (crusty old desktop), Graphics card, and ISA (too bad) netwaor card... Did I get ripped off??
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