Best avi player for a slow laptop

[flyboy320]

I have a IBM 570E laptop (Pentium 500) which I'm trying to play some avi files with. I have tried WMP but it's waaaayyy to slow. Tried Media Player Classic and its a bit better, but still to slow. Are there any other players out there I could try, or is a p500 just to slow?

[BJ_M]

mpc would be about the best for speed most likely

[flyboy320]

Thanks for the reply BJ_M.

What about burning the file on a cd as an vcd and playing it in the cd drive. Would that be any better than reading it off the h/d with MPC?

[BJ_M]

it would be better off of HD than off a cd

[flyboy320]

I suppose converting it from an AVI file to another format (Xvid) would not "speed" it up either?

[BJ_M]

what type of avi ? there are some 50 types ....

ive had HD content play smoothly on p500's before - on dedicated systems ...

usually some codec like one of picvideo 's is pretty fast - so is the old on2 duck codec , which was made for playing hi res files on p350's - p400's

[BJ_M]

and no - converting to xvid would not speed it up

[flyboy320]

I think it uses ffdshow mpeg-4 codec.

[Baldrick]

maybe mplayer or vlc.

[BJ_M]

I think it uses ffdshow mpeg-4 codec.

be better playing - cpu wise - in one of the codecs i mentioned ... most motion jpeg is very cpu friendly

[The_Doman]

I have a IBM 570E laptop (Pentium 500) which I'm trying to play some avi files with. I have tried WMP but it's waaaayyy to slow. Tried Media Player Classic and its a bit better, but still to slow. Are there any other players out there I could try, or is a p500 just to slow?

You could try original MS Mediaplayer 6.4.
It should be found in the same folder as the newer WMP as mplayer2.exe

[flyboy320]

Well thanks for everyone's help. VLC seems to play nice and smooth. The only problem I'm getting is that colors are way off. If I play through WMP the video jumps/skips, but the color is right on. I'll play with this some more and try to get the colors right with VLC.

Well I checked the "deinterlacing video filter" in the preferences, and all is good now

[olyteddy]

Older versions of BS Player are also good for limited resources. I was running Version .86? on an AMD K6-2 in desktop mode with very few Hiccups