Minimum Spec Laptop for DivX/Xvid?

[Thomsk]

I'm looking to pick up a cheap 2nd user laptop soley for watching DivX and Xvid movies on.

Can anyone recommend a minimum level of processor, graphics and ram that would allow these AVI files to play smoothly?

Many thanks

Thomsk

[yoda313]

Hi,

I have an old P2 laptop with 64mb of ram. It chokes on video.

I'd suggest a Pentium 3 or faster. Also a minimum of 128mb ram would be ideal.

Kevin

[celtic_druid]

Depends on the res of the files, whether they use advanced features like qpell and bframes. Also how you playback. For instance WMP10 with say XviD decoding with full post processing enabled will eat way more CPU than mplayer running under some form of linux with libavcodec doing the decoding with no post processing.

[hexxisoft]

i've got a fujitsu lifebook c340, p233 with 64 megs of ram, and i watch DivX, Xvid, and VCDs on it sometimes. It works fine, as long as the DivX/Xvid files are on the HD and not being read off of a CD Rom.

[Thomsk]

i've got a fujitsu lifebook c340, p233 with 64 megs of ram

I didn't expect that a P233 would have enough grunt to run DivX files - What sort of operating system and player is that running?

[waheed]

I used to have a P233 with 64MB or ram, running Windows 98 and it choked on DivX files.

However, it played VCDs fine.