my laptop and divx

[desy]

So I got a Dell p3-750 with 256 MB a 10 gig drive and XP
playing divx movies on either winblows media player with codec plug-in or on the Sonic dvd player sound lags the motion, less so with the Sonic player but still noticlbe and the gap gets bigger and bigger as the movie plays on
Is this just not enough LT or do I need a better divx player with less overhead?

 

[DaveSimmons]

For hires divx the CPU range I've seen recommended is 800 MHz - 1 GHz.

 

[madthumbs]

Older versions of BS Player are probably best for this situation. The most probable cause I would think is the video chipset though. You could probably tweak media player or bs player for more peformance and slightly lower quality picture.

 

[desy]

By lowering quality you means dropping colour pallette depth?
8mb Rage pro mobility chipset . . .

I can't find the original CD with the ATI dvd player cause I reloaded with XP and Dell doesn't offer up the player on their site, nor ATI

 

[DaveSimmons]

The ATI software would only play MPEG1 & 2, not divx.

For divx, in general the higher the resolution the more CPU is needed to decode it. Switching to lower resolution for divx encoding or re-encoding as MPEG2 or (S)VCD should solve your problem.

 

[desy]

I was just thinking the ATI dvd player is HW optimized instead of SW for the ATI chipset and with the codec would take some resource pressure off.

I'll drop the resolution and see what happens
Tanks!!

 

[HappyNic]

for Divx files it depends more on the power of your CPU then your video card. And of course some will require more CPU power to run them correctly depending on how the dvix was encoded. You best bet is to use a program call FFDshow. It uses the less amount of cpu compare to other codec and supports nearly all divx/xvid encodes. Just type ffdshow on yahoo and you'll find it. After installing this decoder, you can play our divx file on mplayer2 to save a little bit more cpu power. just type mplayer2 in "run" at teh "start" menu.

 

[desy]

Yeah I did get FFDshow but running regular MP
and the Sonic DVD player
Thanks again!

 

[desy]

Ahhh , sweet, boys, sweeet
tried mplayer2 first off no better but BS player saves the day!!
Thanks all!!