can a 433mhz laptop handle software dvd decoder?

[statetech]

just curious if a laptop 433mhz AMD cpu can handle software dvd decoding.

I've seen 500mhz Athlon running software dvd decoding with very little problems. Whatcha guys think?

 

[John]

Depends on the video card.

 

[BCYL]

I say Yes... I had a PII 300Mhz before and it ran software DVD decoders with very little problems... only at scenes with tons of action does it slow down a bit...

 

[jschuk]

You might have 2-7 pauses or jerks over the length of the film. Yes it is very doable. I had it working on a PII300 laptop with 96MB.

 

[BigFatCow]

i had a 450pII desktop with 8mb video that could view DVDs pretty good with software decoder. it got clocked up in scenes with alot of action.

 

[corkyg]

I can't recall how many movies I ran on my old 400 MHz laptop . . . never a problem until I downloaded and upgraded the DX that was installed. That killed it. 🙂 But, I restored it, with the laptop's Restore CD.

The video card was the ATI Rage Pro 128 mobile, and I had 64 MB of SDRAM.

But, yes . . . it played movies very well and still does for my youngest son.

 

[statetech]

thanks everyone!

BTW, it's a 4mb video card. that enough juice?

 

[S0me1X]

4MB video card... what kind of resolution would you be running at? 800x600x16?

 

[statetech]

it would be at 800 x 600. 16 or 32, but most likely it's 16.

 

[MulLa]

An OT question really.... but is divX playback more demanding than DVD? Since divx is more highly compressed and I'd imagine that more power is required to decode it? But then the quality is not as high. But I am able to play divx smoothly on my crusoe 600Mhz, 128mb ram, 4mb video.

 

[EMAN]

It should handle fine long as you have rage pro card. I had one with 4 meg rage pro and a celeron 466. I don't know about AMD k6-2 chips though.