DivX Player

[Dak]

I'm not really sure where to post this question, so I thought I would ask it here - sorry if there is a better place to ask!

I have an old PC which I was going to use as my DivX player. It's not up to much (P2, 230Mb RAM, etc) but I though it would be fine playing films as it has a TV out on the GFX card.

My problem is that when the camera pans quickly in the film I get horizontal lines in the film like the screen update isn't quick enough. I don't get these flickers when I play them on my PC (XP2200, 1GB RAM, Geforce4) so I can only assume it's the hardware.

What I was wanting to ask is if there is a DivX player app which would overcome this problem by doing something like caching the film into memory before firing it at the video card to try to reduce the update issues. Basically, what would be the best player to use on a low spec machine.

Also would the OS make a difference - I've tried Win2K and Win98 and it happened in both - or is there anything else I can do to help reduce this issue.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Cheers, Dak.

[cult]

Dont know how much could help but you could use ffdshow.It doesnt need so much cpu power.Also the new zoom 90(its rc1 still),claims to be faster in win98 and me.You can try but dont expect miracles

[killingspree]

i've been playing divx movies on a P2 with 400 and one with 350 mhz and each 256 mb ram without any real problems...
still i sometimes had to reboot the computer before playing movies to empty the memory and speed things up...

my advice in general is to keep memory and cpu usage as low as possible... so close EVERY program you don't need to watch the movie... and try to play the movies from your hard disk and not you cd rom drive.. playing it from your cd rom will slow it down reasonably...
oh and better stay away from wmp! (:


anyway good luck
steVe

[Dak]

Thanks for the advice, although I have been doing most of that already. I already copy from the CD and play the film from the HD and the DivX stuff is the only thing installed on the beast so far so it's not other apps slowing it down.

I'll keep trying other players and see which is best.

Thanks,

Dak.