JimmyBarnes
24th September 2005, 11:35
My current PC player is:
MSI KM2M Combo-L mainboard (MS-6738)
AMD CPU (see below)
256 MHz PC2700 DDR RAM
10 GB Fujitsu HDD
LiteOn SOHC-5235K DVD-ROM/CD±RW drive (DMA enabled in OS)
Compaq Geforce2 MX/MX400 AGP card
Windows Millenium
This has been very successful in playing XviD/DivX3,4,5 AVIs for the past two years, though since I changed from storing these on DVD-R 4.7GB instead of CD-R 700MB, I have increased resolutions often well above 640x and used appropriately high bitrates to get good quality video.
This has resulted in the original 700 MHz Duron CPU being progressively upgraded to 1 GHz Duron, then 1.3 GHz Duron and recently to Athlon XP 2400+ (2.0 GHz).
The main reason for the CPU upgrades was because I found certain AVIs would lose AV sync, or freeze for several seconds (would self-correct and continue).
Most of my rips are XviD which I understand requires much more CPU power to decode than does DivX5. Player has been mostly ZoomPlayer 4.03 WMV.
I'm still getting some freezes even with the XP 2400+ (no other changes). Would using XP as the OS rather than Me fix this problem or tend to make it worse? I deliberately chose Me as it is less hardware demanding than XP. I know Me has bad press but I have generally had good results with it on a variety of PCs.
Your insight and (especially) experience please
thanx
JB
MSI KM2M Combo-L mainboard (MS-6738)
AMD CPU (see below)
256 MHz PC2700 DDR RAM
10 GB Fujitsu HDD
LiteOn SOHC-5235K DVD-ROM/CD±RW drive (DMA enabled in OS)
Compaq Geforce2 MX/MX400 AGP card
Windows Millenium
This has been very successful in playing XviD/DivX3,4,5 AVIs for the past two years, though since I changed from storing these on DVD-R 4.7GB instead of CD-R 700MB, I have increased resolutions often well above 640x and used appropriately high bitrates to get good quality video.
This has resulted in the original 700 MHz Duron CPU being progressively upgraded to 1 GHz Duron, then 1.3 GHz Duron and recently to Athlon XP 2400+ (2.0 GHz).
The main reason for the CPU upgrades was because I found certain AVIs would lose AV sync, or freeze for several seconds (would self-correct and continue).
Most of my rips are XviD which I understand requires much more CPU power to decode than does DivX5. Player has been mostly ZoomPlayer 4.03 WMV.
I'm still getting some freezes even with the XP 2400+ (no other changes). Would using XP as the OS rather than Me fix this problem or tend to make it worse? I deliberately chose Me as it is less hardware demanding than XP. I know Me has bad press but I have generally had good results with it on a variety of PCs.
Your insight and (especially) experience please
thanx
JB