What is the minimum speed (Mhz) to run VCD, divx, and DVD

[kelvin1704]

Can anyone tell me what is the minimum speed (Mhz) to run VCD, divx, and DVD.

Can a 100Mhz do the job?

a) VCD
b) Divx or avi
c) DVD

 

[rbV5]

Probably not very well,

a) VCD These are Mpeg-1 files, if you could run anything, this would be it.
b) Divx, probably need 450mhz minimum, AVI, depends on the codec, low resolution would be fine.
c) Without hardware decoder, 450mhz, with hardware, 100mhz maybe, I've seen smooth performance on a 133mhz with a hollywood card.

 

[kelvin1704]

so does it means if its 450 Mhz and above, i will have no problem running all of these?

 

[guzik]

I watch divx's on ThinkPad with PII/300, although to get it without skipping/freezing I resize screen to 800x600 at 16bit color. So, I could guess this is where bottom limit is. DVD on my other laptop with Celery333 sux.

 

[RolyL]

640x480 DivXs were not terribly good on my PII 350.

Classic Athlon 500 certainly manages DVDs very nicely.

 

[MulLa]

I tried playing DivX on a P100 and it definately doesn't play very well. Hm.. unless you liked slide shows DivX should run fine on a PII 350 tried it at work and it's ok it was with a 8MB ATI card too! Just make sure not too many things are running in the background!

Lowest machine I played smooth DVD on was a Celeron 466 with a 16MB TNT2 card

 

[Smbu]

That 100mhz system should be fine for VCD's. I remember one of my former roommates used to watch vcd's/mpg pretty decently on a 75mhz 486 DX-2 laptop. Divx you need something more powerful for smooth playback. I can watch them fine on my P3 500 laptop. DVD's probably something in the +400mhz area software wise. I'm not sure about a hardware card though, maybe in the 200mhz area, but I'm not sure.

 

[xtreme2k]

320x240 divx you prolly look at about P2/350
640x480 divx you prolly look at a P3/650+

 

[LukFilm]

K6/266 runs it OK with 4MB video card (divx)

 

[smp]

I have had problems running divx on a PIII450 before. I mean, not drastic problems, but every now and then it would skip a frame.

 

[LanEvoVI]

My old Pentium 200 doesn't run divx very well.

 

[SaturnX]

I was just testing some software decoding on my PII400 works like a charm, same with DivX and VCDs, all of them run smoothly. Though I normally use the H+ for decoding, but when I actually set up my new 1.4 Athlon XP system I'm going to stick with software.

--Mark