Playing movies in windows 95

[hunnie3982]

Im trying to get .avi movies (as in full length films, not 15 second clips) to play on a computer running windows 95(4.00.950a). It has 16 mbs of RAM and a 150 Mhz processor. Is this even possible. I've already tried using divx 3.11 and WMP 6.4 which says a working decompressor cannot be found. Is there some other media player which will work with my system or something else I could try?

[jameshgross]

I run a simular system but with 256M of ram.
I dont think there is a single player that will run in 16M.
I use WMP and it works well in this system.

Try installing the correct codec.

Use GSPOT to idenitify the type of file and codec needed

[yoda313]

Yes use gspot to find the correct codec.

An alternative would be to use a faster computer and convert the file to vcd. VCD is an old format that should play fine on an older system like 95 with slow system resources.

[olyteddy]

Older versions of BS Player also work on slower machines. I could watch video in Desktop mode on my AMD K-6-2 machine using BS.

[kschang]

Not possible. You need 400 MHz CPU to play DIVX-style files. Trust me. You also need at least 256 megs.

And use VLC, as it's likely the lightest player around. I've done it.

[TwistedLincoln]

Why not just buy a cheapo Divx-capable DVD player? You can get them for ~$50 at Walmart, and then you can just watch your videos on your TV...

[hexxisoft]

KSChang, you don't need 400 mhz or 256 megs of ram to play DivX. I used to play them on a 266 mhz pentium 2 with 64 megs of ram when I was a kid.

[celtic_druid]

mplayer is lighter on resources than VLC. Best bet would be to run it under some kind of dedicated linux distro though.

[Ai Haibara]

Heh. When I used Win95, I was playing almost every video using DOS players. Of course, this was the time before DivX and MPEG-4.

I used DISPLAY (which apparently stopped development somewhere around that time), and it handled AVIs and Quicktime movies decently for the time. I think I saw something for DOS a few months back that would allow for DivX/XVid playback, but don't remember what it was.