Will my laptop play video and if so, what kind ?

[sybariten]

OK here's the deal:
IBM thinkpad 600e at 300 MHz and 64 mb memory.
My question is if its probable that this machine can play video in the form of perhaps "normal mpegs", "divX avis", etc.
If so, i will maybe install Win98 on it, it has linux right now. I have done some quick tests with a live-OS made specifically for video (running directly from CD), and all videos showed in slomotion then.
Your average one-CD-DVD-rip for instance ( .avi) , would that play ?

peace

[edDV]

most any kind.
it just may not play at full speed.



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Among your problems is your non accelerated graphics hardware. The CPU must carry the full load. A 300MHz desktop could play most forms of video with a modern accelerated graphics card and modern disk controller-HDD (ATA66 or better).

A laptop is frozen in time. You are limited to realtime decoding using only the 300MHz CPU and 64K RAM which will be limited to lightly compressed MPeg1 and very small MPeg2 rasters.

[guns1inger]

mpeg-1 (VCD) should play at full speed. Divx and Xvid require a fair bit more grunt to decode, so playback is likely to be stilted. Same with DVD/mpeg-2. Uncompressed video's bandwidth requirements will choke this machine.

[sybariten]

thanks for your input!