What's the minimum required to play divx movies?

[dmurray14]

I'm wondering if a PIII 400 could do it. Maybe a 500?

Dan

 

[FrustratedUser]

Yes

 

[dc]

maybe, depends what bitrate it's encoded at

 

[dawks]

I watch DivX videos daily on my main machine. A PII 400 with 256megs ram running Windows XP. (A good video card [ie. NOT integrated] will make a BIG difference - my parents Celeron 700 with integrated can only play divx videos in a small player window)


I have a video on my system thats like 40 minutes long, but is 700megs in size, so its really high bit rate and my system plays it.

The latest release of DivX is pretty fast on slower systems. 5.1.1

 

[kami333]

Also using ffdshow instead of the divx.com codec can make it better on slower systems.

 

[oniq]

My iBook G3 600mhz does it Thats the slowest computer I got :\

 

[episodic]

I had a celeron 466 do it just fine . . .

 

[KingNothing]

The slowest machine I've played Divx movies on was a PIII-500 with 256MB of RAM. I don't remember if I tried it on the PII-233 or not.

 

[vegetation]

Depends on the birate by a great deal. Low quality stuff can usually be played with old specs just fine. On my P900 low quality stuff just taxes the cpu around 10%, but high bitrate will eat up 90+% easily.

 

[fs5]

The minimum is an XBox, cheapest media box you'll find.

 

[Kenazo]

I have a 50 foot S-video cable running from my computer to my TV. that works just fine.

Slowest computer i've run Divx on properly is a p2-500

 

[Atlantean]

It will do it, but it may be a little choppy.