Minimum System Specs To Play Divx Movies?

[aintgottime]

Hey you guys are the best for knowledge so what is the answer to the question above?

[VB]

About 400 Mhz CPU and 128 MB ram.

It will play on slower systems, but usually not without audio synchronisation problems and choppy video playback.

[ilw]

I agree pretty much on those specs, but thats not running xp (use win 98 or linux or maybe win 2000 instead) with xp you'd probably need about a 700 - 800 MHz and about 256MB ram

[Keikan]

Big resolution (640 X ***)+ You'll need 700mhz-1ghz+

A Lower resolution (500 X ***)+ You'll need 400mhz+

And a tip for playing divx movies on lower cpu's

What i found is that when i played a movie on 800x600 it was slow but when i played it on 1024x740 it went smoother.

[mogadishu]

Originally posted by Keikan@14 September 2003 - 16:25
Big resolution (640 X ***)+ You'll need 700mhz-1ghz+

A Lower resolution (500 X ***)+ You'll need 400mhz+

And a tip for playing divx movies on lower cpu's

What i found is that when i played a movie on 800x600 it was slow but when i played it on 1024x740 it went smoother.
im running a 650mhz.. i run games and divx movies fine.

[bigdawgfoxx]

i run 720X*** and it sometimes gets chopy....and some sound difficulties..SOMETIMES...maybe cuz its a celeron..and i only have 320MB of ram...but check my specs below

[johnboy27]

I used to watch Divx movies on my old P2 333mhz with and ATI 8 mb PCI video card and 192mb of ram with no probs at all.

[3RA1N1AC]

if you have a CPU that falls below the recommended specs for DivX, you could get an Mpeg4/DivX decoder card (it's called the Sigma X-Card, i believe) which should be able to play Mpeg4 with a slow CPU. it's not really very useful for PCs with fast CPUs, but for old computers it does have a niche.

[smellmycomputer]

Originally posted by 3RA1N1AC@15 September 2003 - 09:35
if you have a CPU that falls below the recommended specs for DivX, you could get an Mpeg4/DivX decoder card (it's called the Sigma X-Card, i believe) which should be able to play Mpeg4 with a slow CPU. it's not really very useful for PCs with fast CPUs, but for old computers it does have a niche.
may have to look into that, use an old machine that's sitting in the corner doing nothing ot play divXs