P2 300 Mhz and K-lite pack - decent Divx decoding!

[would_like_to_know]

All,

Due to an evil twist of fate a had to downgrade a P4 2Ghz to a way older and slower P2 300 Mhz in a remote location.

That system is now 300 Mhz / 256 Mb RAM / AGP Radeon 7500, with WinXP SP2, and K-lite codec pack.

Suprisingly enough, a few Divx/Xvid videos I tried on that system with Media Player Classic went just fine, smooth playback at 1024x768 screen resolution.

This Radeon has iDCT and Motion Compensation support, although I am not sure if any of the codecs employ that. Any info here?

So, it seems like conventional wisdom about what system is fast enough to play Divx overestimates what is needed, since a lot of hardware players decode Divx at chipset frequencies of 50-100 Mhz. Granted, these are highly optimized chips, yet they are still relatively general purpose, since Divx/Xvid do need a large set of computing features.

So, take a note, a slow by today standards PC computer may still be an OK Divx player!

[Dark Shikari]

The Radeon's support is MPEG-2, not DivX.

You don't need a codec pack for fast DivX decoding; FFDshow is basically the fastest singlethreaded decoder out there.

[would_like_to_know]

The Radeon's support is MPEG-2, not DivX.

You don't need a codec pack for fast DivX decoding; FFDshow is basically the fastest singlethreaded decoder out there.

Thanks for the info! Klite does use FFDshow, and I am too lazy to mess around with individual codecs, Klite has been good to me so far on all systems I tried. I will stick with it until it fails.

So, double cheer then for FFDshow, it saved my day ! :)

[Shinigami-Sama]

The Radeon's support is MPEG-2, not DivX.

You don't need a codec pack for fast DivX decoding; FFDshow is basically the fastest singlethreaded decoder out there.

quoted for truth
get rid of k-lite and install FFDshow


Thanks for the info! Klite does use FFDshow, and I am too lazy to mess around with individual codecs, Klite has been good to me so far on all systems I tried. I will stick with it until it fails.

So, double cheer then for FFDshow, it saved my day ! :)

thats an old release
look in the ASP subforum for ffdshow tryouts
thats where the latest versions are

[clsid]

K-Lite uses ffdshow tryouts, not the old ffdshow.

[Shinigami-Sama]

K-Lite uses ffdshow tryouts, not the old ffdshow.

good to know, but still say it'd be a good idea to get rid of it

[would_like_to_know]

good to know, but still say it'd be a good idea to get rid of it

He-he, I love to take on elitist attitude myself on a suitable occasion, but that system is now thousands kilometers from me, and will be pretty much unsupported for 99.99% of the time.

So, it is then Klite codec pack for it, no deviations of any sort! :)

[Shinigami-Sama]

He-he, I love to take on elitist attitude myself on a suitable occasion, but that system is now thousands kilometers from me, and will be pretty much unsupported for 99.99% of the time.

So, it is then Klite codec pack for it, no deviations of any sort! :)

I've had nothing but bad experiance with k-lite
and now a days you only need FFDshow and halii splitter, maybe maybe quicktime alt and real alt

[ilovejedd]

My roommate had a PII 250 MHz 32MB RAM Win98SE laptop, supposedly for studies but we used it quite a lot for non-school related stuff. Iirc, we've never had problems watching videos on it. Then again, all of the stuff we were watching were MPEG1 (VCDs), Divx 4 or Divx 3.11 (the hacked MS codec) so they pretty much all had modest system requirements. Not sure how it would fare now. Obviously x264 is out but on a lean Linux install, it might be fine with Divx 6 and Xvid encoded content. :p