Minimum Spec. for a DiVx Laptop

[Gronich]

I want to play my DiVx movies with a laptop. What be the acceptable minimum CPU for this?

 

[chin311]

PII w/ 128mb ram? not sure...

i ran movies on an old PII 266 w/ 192mb ram, 4meg video compaq lappy, workd fine...

 

[Wiktor]

I thought 600MHz was needed for high quality divX? Ram is not important, just enough for the OS. Large HD obviously.

 

[dorky82]

at least 256mb memory. I have sony vio 650 celeron 64mb memory. It ran choppy so i added 128mb but still choppy in full screen. so added 256mb stick. ran perfect in full screen. I was using winxp. and minimum requirement for divx is 128mb

 

[mooojojojo]

I don't think that a Pentium2 266 will be enough.. I tried playing a movie on my brothers P2-300 notebook and it was kida okay in windowed mode, but really choppy in full-screen. Perhaps a P3-500 w/ 192MB RAM I would guess.

 

[Gronich]

Let me clarify. I used to use a Athlon 1.33Ghz PC which stuggled with all the post image enhancements and a XP2000+ (1.66Ghz) which ran at around 70% CPU usage.

Because we lose an appreciable amount of performance with the CPU in a laptop I was looking at the XP2000+ plus mark. What I be right in say this is probably overkill and I shouldn't have any problems?

 

[metalmania]

Video card is more important.

Back to year 2000, I used Celeron 266, 128M and Voodoo Banshee to play DivX very well. Laptop should be similar but be sure to have a fast 2D video card.

 

[metalmania]

You don't need post processing. Are you sure you can see the difference?
My dell 8100 with P3-M 1G can play any DivX file at 1600X1200 very well.

Originally posted by: Gronich
Let me clarify. I used to use a Athlon 1.33Ghz PC which stuggled with all the post image enhancements and a XP2000+ (1.66Ghz) which ran at around 70% CPU usage.

Because we lose an appreciable amount of performance with the CPU in a laptop I was looking at the XP2000+ plus mark. What I be right in say this is probably overkill and I shouldn't have any problems?

 

[mooojojojo]

Originally posted by: metalmania
Video card is more important.

Back to year 2000, I used Celeron 266, 128M and Voodoo Banshee to play DivX very well. Laptop should be similar but be sure to have a fast 2D video card.

Yeah, but back in 2000 wasnt it DivX 3 and not 5? I'm not sure but isn't DivX 5 a little more taxing?

 

[metalmania]

DivX3.11 always rocks. But for DivX5, I think ffdshow codec is much better for playing.

 

[Gronich]

Many thanks

 

[igowerf]

A divx movie was choppy on a PII 400 with 128MB of ram.

 

[dexvx]

It depends on what type of encoding it is, of course.

AFAIK, the highest quality XVid plays on my centrino 1.3Ghz laptop just fine, even with speedStep (650Mhz). It has WinXP Home and 512MB DDR SDRam.

 

[magomago]

Well when Iencoded some of my anime - (escaflowne) i would do it a t a bitrate of 1800kbps 640*480 and turn up all the "image quality" bars and it was around 70ish% on a athlon at 1.71Ghz and when it hit a fast paced scene it would go up to 85%

now i encode in Xvid and I haven't checked it out recently...

But I would say get atleast a 2000+ or if its a centrino you are buying get the higher end ones.

 

[dexvx]

^

Centrino 1.3 = AXP 2000+ more than easily on a laptop.

 

[Night Blade]

Video card is more important I find, had a Dell Latitude P2 400 with 256mb/WinXP/4mb video, DivX ran fine no problems. Now using a Sony Vaio P2 400 128mb/WinXP/2.5mb video & I need to turn the performance down to minimal to run anything, even then you notice skipping every few mins.

 

[jjyiz28]

i believe divx decoding is mostly cpu, not video card. my tbird 750 could play all my encoded divx files, some encoded to like 1500 bitrate. while my friends 700 celeron stutters on high encoded divx

 

[magomago]

Originally posted by: jjyiz28
i believe divx decoding is mostly cpu, not video card. my tbird 750 could play all my encoded divx files, some encoded to like 1500 bitrate. while my friends 700 celeron stutters on high encoded divx

It is entirely CPU bound - unlses you have a radeon DX9 card that is supposed to help the decode process but by how much is what I wonder.

Either way make sure you have atleast a 2hz processor for HQ divx