Hi Dan- I have had 'some' success playing divx videos on my Wallstreet! No dice yet under 10.4 at all yet, but conditional success under OS9. I added some divx/avi codec's I scrounged up off my archives (Bit of a Pack Rat - File Wise and in General). So far, I still can't 'direct' launch the avi's, but a quick run through 'divx dr ii' turned the 330mb file in about 60sec into a .mov file which runs usably well. In 'fullscreen' mode in quicktime player the video plays smoothly with the only exception being block-i-ness developing at some of the 'scene' transitions involving extreme changes in visual content (about once every 4 to 5 minutes or so - this might be a casual relationship and not causal, fwiw). I must say that a Wallstreets built in speakers put out incredible SOUND! I'm no audiophile, but while watching Mythbusters I actually paused it twice checking to see if I had accidently turned a radio or a tv on before realizing it was the background audio from the SHOW~WOW!
Since I only have $20 TOTAL into this machine, I'm thinking about getting the DVD decoder card for watching 'true' DVD's. The Battery appears to be very very good and a 14" Portable DVD Player that also happens to be a working LapTop is a handy thing. Richard On Mar 10, 12:02 am, Dan <[email protected]> wrote: > At 5:39 PM -0700 3/9/2009, aussieshepsrock wrote: > > >Wallstreet II (192mb/60gig/DVD). > > >I'm wondering if it's possible to watch divx encoded video files on > >this machine. > >tried vlc in 10.4 with -essentially- no success, the audio played > >just fine but the video > >only played a frame or two every minute or two. > > The DivX codecs (real divx or perian) are major cpu pigs. I doubt > you can play such videos on that speed machine. > > - Dan. > -- > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
