DivX on a Pentium Pro?

[ViperMagic]

Hey,
I've got Swordfish, DivX style, and at school I work on a Pentium Pro. Will it run the codec and stuff? I can't find the sys req's.
THanks

 

[N8Magic]

I doubt it will work.

If it does it'll be choppy. My parents old PPro 200 used to be choppy playing Quicktime videos.

 

[N8Magic]

<< ha no. it's not even Pentium II... that means it's 166mhz at the most.

prepare for some major choppyness >>



Ahaha, Pentium Pro and PII had the same P6 core.

 

[RGN]

<< ha no. it's not even Pentium II... that means it's 166mhz at the most.

prepare for some major choppyness >>



hahahahah your wrong.

PPro's went to 200. A 200 512k or even 1 MB will sh!t on a PII 350.

I've still got my PPro, it runs Win2K and everything else I through at it. I did upgrade it with the "mini-zeon" Intel overdrive though (333Mhz/512K on full speed on die)

 

[notfred]

320x240 video will probably play alright. full size DVD rips definitely wont.

 

[ViperMagic]

<< 320x240 video will probably play alright. full size DVD rips definitely wont. >>



How would one go about converting it? These things run WIn95 too, btw

 

[yakko]

<< ha no. it's not even Pentium II... that means it's 166mhz at the most.

prepare for some major choppyness >>

Pentium Pros actually got pretty high in mhz. I think around 400. They were used in laptops.

 

[ViperMagic]

<<

<< ha no. it's not even Pentium II... that means it's 166mhz at the most.

prepare for some major choppyness >>

Pentium Pros actually got pretty high in mhz. I think around 400. They were used in laptops. >>



There are 2 Pentum Pro's in the lab, the rest are 486's, so theyre likly slow. I don't have much hope of decoding DivX on one of them (486), do I?

 

[thomsbrain]

probably won't play. i had a PII 300 that wouldn't play them. A PII 400 will though...

 

[NetworkDad]

What are you watching movies at school for anyway, shouldn't you be "studying"?

 

[JEDI]

i overclocked my pent pro to 225mhz. damn dvd software wont play. it required a p2-233 minimum. something in the software checks if it's a p2 or higher. if not, it wont play. used another dvd program. worked like a charm.

yeah, divx should run on a pentium pro 200mhz or higher.

 

[yoda291]

Dammit, I was about to say turn it into an xterminal and run an x server from another higher end machine...but that's not a real option now is it?

 

[spanky]

so are playing divx files more dependent on cpu or video card?

 

[Mday]

few video cards even support dvd decoding. and divx or mpeg4 (there is supposedly a difference) requires even more powerful processors.

divx is taxing on modern CPUs as is.

No video card has divx or mpeg4 decoding capabilities. Sigma designs has an addon card that has hardware mpeg4 and divx support.

 

[AndyHui]

Pentium Pros only existed as a desktop/server processor, at 166, 180 and 200MHz, in various L2 cache sizes.

It was never used in a laptop.

DivX is dependent on the processor. The problem with the Pentium Pro is that it has no form of SIMD support...MMX/SSE/3DNow, which will make a big difference to decoding.

DivX should run, but don't expect it to cope too well.

 

[hooj]

I have a old Pentium 166 MMX with 32megs of RAM and a 16megs Graphics card, at home that I watch DivX films on without any problem

 

[Demon-Xanth]

PPros were available from 150 to 200, they do have the multipliers for 233 w/o FSB overclocking. *peer at a PPro 150 he ran at 166 and 180*

 

[JEDI]

could not get my ppro 180 or 200 to oc to 233

225 was the max i got.

 

[QTPie]

<<There are 2 Pentum Pro's in the lab, the rest are 486's, so theyre likly slow. I don't have much hope of decoding DivX on one of them (486), do I? >>

Man, you should call Steve Jobs or Bill Gates to donate some better computers.
Here is the specs:

These minimum requirements are measured for full-screen (640x480) video playback with playback quality and post-processing settings at their lowest levels. Full playback quality and post-processing requires at least 15% more CPU power.

DivX? Minimum System Requirements

Windows

Windows 98 or higher
Pentium II 450 processor or equivalent
64 MB or more of RAM
8 MB or higher video card
Minimum 24-bit color when using Windows Media Player
DirectX 7 or higher is suggested for best video performance

Linux

Pentium II 450 processor or equivalent
64 MB or more of RAM
8 MB or higher video card

Mac

PowerPC G3 333 MHz processor
128 MB or more of RAM
Mac OS 8.6 or higher (including Mac OS X)