MPEG-2 playback

Bushido Philosopher · Post by **Bushido Philosopher** » Fri Sep 27, 2002 12:27 am

As you know MPEG-2 takes up quite a bit of CPU power on older processors. What would you suggest the minimum to have smooth playback is?

(Damn I hate people who have no idea how to run a computer. It's almost the equivalent of not knowing how to work a TV.)

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Fri Sep 27, 2002 1:47 am

I believe you would want atleast a P-III or Duron/Athlon @ 600Mhz or greater.

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Fri Sep 27, 2002 3:00 am

You can do it in hardware with one of these cards:
http://www.sigmadesigns.com/products/hollywood_plus.htm

A lot of people here are using it. They run about $50 to $60.

I just set mine up last night and the only bad thing is that I waited this long to get it. It's plugged into a tv adapter that drives an old 15" monitor. The display is perfect: no skips at all. And I've tried both MPEG1 and MPEG2 files.

It comes with player software, but I'd recommend instead Quu's MCIPlay. You can download it from the "Useful Files" link on your Member Home Page. Quu uses this to play the contest files at AWA and elsewhere. Works great.

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Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Fri Sep 27, 2002 8:09 am

Don't buy from SigmaDesigns, they are BAD PEOPLE, they stole source code from XviD and tried to cover it up!

Mask of Destiny · Post by **Mask of Destiny** » Fri Sep 27, 2002 10:33 am

If you want to go with a hardware based solution, you might want to get an ATI card. The decoder is of a higher quality than the ones packaged with most software DVD decoders. A lot of the purely software based decoders cut corners to improve playback speed.

RadicalEd0 · Post by **RadicalEd0** » Fri Sep 27, 2002 3:29 pm

sigma are asses for stealing xvid
but then its not all bad, just shows u how cool xvid really is
besides, now they've been informed about all the GPL and GNU crap and they've made their modded xvid opensource

anyway on the topic of xvid what is the approximate CPU strain? I just did esca the movie for a friend, but her computer is pretty old (not sure what the speed is), I'm just hoping she'll be able to play it ^^;

640x360 ~ 900 kbps, ffdshow decoder
maybe i shoulve used divx3, i heard that plays on like a 200 mhz processor

Chef · Post by **Chef** » Fri Sep 27, 2002 3:36 pm

isnt xvid some weird version of divx? and didnt divx steal most of itself from mpeg?

RadicalEd0 · Post by **RadicalEd0** » Fri Sep 27, 2002 3:46 pm

er... ¬¬
must I?
do i really have tooo????
no, there are other threads on this
use the forum's search button, search for "the history of divx"
should bring it up

RadicalEd0 · Post by **RadicalEd0** » Fri Sep 27, 2002 3:47 pm

o wait... that thread was a bad explanation
jeezus, hang on, ill find the one I did e.e

RadicalEd0 · Post by **RadicalEd0** » Fri Sep 27, 2002 3:49 pm

here
http://animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/viewt ... story+divx

read me and jbone's explanations and u'll be set 4 life 8)