Or wrote:
>However, it seems like DivX video files which are concidered to take
>lots of resources, can be ran on 166 computers. Me and a friend (Uri)
>managed to run a pretty big and high quality file on such a system.
Was it actually a complete movie? I really doubt it was since my K6-2
400MHz was not enough. It works on smaller files of course, but not a movie
played from a CD (I had 15fps from CD, 20fps from HD - the movies are in 25
or 30 fps).
This was probably with the latest "DivX ;-)" decoder since the development
AFAIK has stopped and it now continues on "OpenDivX" (there are atleast
plans for Linux and BeOS IIRC). It might be faster.
>Why does it work: Basicly, a 166MHz computer is concidered to be
>"below the minimum". However, it seems like besides the obvious
>benefit of overclocking the motherboard, the MMX also really helped-
>and not just because it "helps accelerate graphics", but also because
>MMX chips have a larger cache then non-MMX chips.
I just wanted to point out that a K6-2 has MMX (+some more) and much more
cache.
On the other hand the problem for me was the lack of a good FPU (Floating
Point Unit) but it was faster than the one on a P166MMX.
A Pentium II/III (or Celeron) 400-500MHz should be enough, on the other
hand they are more expensive than a AMD Duron 700-900MHz and doesn't give
the same performance.
>Media Player 6.0 is the "minimum required" for DivX, as far as I
>know, though I also managed to run most DivX files with the basic
>Media Player that comes with Win95. (I'd still recommend using etleast
>version 6.0, though.. 6.4 would be the best one to use on Win95.)
I can't remember the version numbers (but it's atleast 6.0), but what I've
read the older the better.
>Except for getting stuck every now and then, it ran absolutly ok.
>When it gets stuck - just pause the movie, go back a second or two,
>and resume. This should clear the problem and let it continue normaly.
Now and then? It got stuck for me (I tried what you suggested here) after a
few seconds, I could watch perhaps 5-10 more, get stuck and so on. Well not
really stuck, the sound is always continuing.
//Bernie
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