Minimum requirements to play DVD movie on Laptop???

[psigna]

I have been considering purchasing portable dvd player for road trips. I have not decided on which one, but I know that I don't want less than 7 inch screen.

Now, I have an older lap top Toshiba Satellite pro 440 CDX sitting here that we are not using. It has a Pentium 133, cd rom drive, 16 or 32 ram, cannot remember right now. What would be the minimum requirements, other than a dvd rom, for this lap top to be able to play dvd movies, retail ones or copied, but not home-made movies?

[redwudz]

Two of the more popular software players, PowerDVD and WinDVD say the minimum requirements are 350-500MHZ processor, 64-128MB ram, 800-1024 screen resolution. But I think the big problem would be the video card(system) in the laptop. The other problem would be using an external DVD drive. Not to say it wouldn't work, but the odds are against it. DVD has a pretty high data stream requirement, and your laptop would be marginal to handle it. Try playing a VCD or a SVCD. If it can play one of those, you may have a chance.

[johns0]

The best you can play on your laptop is a vcd,a svcd requires at least a p2 400mhz and dvd even more.