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i have a tp 570 pentium 333 mhz with 128 mb of ram,can it support divx movies? i used it with win xp home very well but the movies go not regular,why?

antospedico wrote:i have a tp 570 pentium 333 mhz with 128 mb of ram,can it support divx movies? i used it with win xp home very well but the movies go not regular,why?

What's the resolution of the movies? If it's somewhere beyond about 400x300 pixels or so, you'll have to set the color depth to 16bit in order for the video to be displayed in an overlay. Otherwise software rendering will jump in and the video will play jerky. If that doesn't help, it's very likely that the resolution and/or compression ratio of your video files is too high and the CPU isn't powerful enough to decode them in time. In this case you could try to reduce the rendering quality in the DIVX decoder settings or, as a last resort, consider trying the less resource-hungry fddshow as a substitute. You also might want to check if you're running unnecessary background tasks that impede your computer's performance.

Or you can go get a Margi DVD to Go card and it will do the decoding, I have used one in a TP600 with a 366 PII and it is perfectly smooth at fullscreen.

Have someone try to play divx movies on this machine? could be the o.s. (win xp home) too hard for this machine?
thanks however for reply!

antospedico wrote:Have someone try to play divx movies on this machine? could be the o.s. (win xp home) too hard for this machine?
thanks however for reply!

I have a 570 with exactly the same specs running XP Pro and DivX3- to 5-encoded files play just fine. They're only around 352x288 pixels, though.

carbon_unit wrote:Or you can go get a Margi DVD to Go card and it will do the decoding, I have used one in a TP600 with a 366 PII and it is perfectly smooth at fullscreen.

I don't have one, but I doubt that it will help with playing DivX-encoded files. It's only an MPEG2-decoder (for DVDs), but DivX is an MPEG4 derivative.

You're right. I must have misread the topic. Oops!

i tried to reset color depth to 16 bit and it works very fine! thanks
but the monitor now is like green.......no problem i change color depth only when i want to see divx movies!

antospedico wrote:i tried to reset color depth to 16 bit and it works very fine! thanks
but the monitor now is like green.......no problem i change color depth only when i want to see divx movies!

Are you running some Adobe software on your TP 570 like PhotoShop? I once had the same problem and it was caused by the special color calibration utility that stays in the background, "adobegamma" or "adobegammaloader" or something like that.

Try this program - MPlayer - The Movie Player (http://www.mplayerhq.hu)

Install as driver for better perfomance.

perfect!! i removed adobe gamma loader and now the monitor works very well! but i can't use mplayer?!?! why?