DVD Player for old 500 MHz Laptop with 256 MB

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Richard Huber

hi folks,

I'm looking for an player for DVDShrinked DVDs.

I tried MPC, VLC an some others but they are
a little bit too slow.

The movie hangs sometimes a little bit.


Do you have a solution for this problem.

BTW: XP works fine on this pc.

regards richard
 
hi folks,

I'm looking for an player for DVDShrinked DVDs.

I tried MPC, VLC an some others but they are
a little bit too slow.

The movie hangs sometimes a little bit.


Do you have a solution for this problem.
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Nothing. You're limited by CPU power and the grahics chipset. The best
you can do is to reduce the compression so the CPU has less work to do.
 
hi folks,

I'm looking for an player for DVDShrinked DVDs.

I tried MPC, VLC an some others but they are
a little bit too slow.

The movie hangs sometimes a little bit.


Do you have a solution for this problem.

BTW: XP works fine on this pc.

regards richard
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IIRC, unless you have a hardware decoder, the least power you can use to
play DVD's is 700 mhz.
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IIRC, unless you have a hardware decoder, the least power you can use to
play DVD's is 700 mhz.
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I have played DVD's without problems on a Celeron 400 system. Perhaps
Richard Huber has too many other programs running on the background.
Perhaps the CPU settings in the BIOS are meant for silence or battery life
and not for speed.
Lately my own laptop was excruciatingly slow. I did a reinstall, tested the
HD, but the problem was in the cpu setting. Now it runs fine.
 
What setting might that be? In what OS?
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My thoughts exactly. I have literally stripped the OS (Windows 98SE)
down to nothing and DVD's (with 128 megs RAM on a 400 mhz Dell laptop)
played very jerky with every DVD player I could find. The slowest
processor I ever got it to run on OK was 600 mhz but it was still
"jerky" every few minutes.

Not sure...DVD's play OK on the 700 mhz box we have, and it is a
clunker, but my 400 mhz Linux box does not play them well at all.

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What setting might that be? In what OS?
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Not in an OS, but in the BIOS, as I wrote in my previous post.
The BIOS of my laptop has such a setting and I find it likely that other
BIOSes have such a setting too. You can access the BIOS by pressing Del,
Esc, F1 or another button (check manual) while booting.
 
Not in an OS, but in the BIOS, as I wrote in my previous post.
The BIOS of my laptop has such a setting and I find it likely that
other BIOSes have such a setting too. You can access the BIOS by
pressing Del, Esc, F1 or another button (check manual) while booting.
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I am sorry, I did see the mentioning of the BIOS, but I took that as
overclocking, which is not recommended for laptops. Am I
misunderstanding what you mean?

What kind of laptop / what kind of setting. You have me curious!

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My thoughts exactly. I have literally stripped the OS (Windows 98SE)
down to nothing and DVD's (with 128 megs RAM on a 400 mhz Dell laptop)
played very jerky with every DVD player I could find. The slowest
processor I ever got it to run on OK was 600 mhz but it was still
"jerky" every few minutes.

Not sure...DVD's play OK on the 700 mhz box we have, and it is a
clunker, but my 400 mhz Linux box does not play them well at all.
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From the DVD Writer box: Processor Speed 800mhz or above.
 
I am sorry, I did see the mentioning of the BIOS, but I took that as
overclocking, which is not recommended for laptops. Am I
misunderstanding what you mean?
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You are misunderstanding it if you think that I suggested overclocking.
What kind of laptop / what kind of setting. You have me curious!
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My laptop is an old Satellite Pro 460 CDT, but that doesn't matter.
All BIOSes are different, so there isn't much point in telling what kind of
setting it is in the BIOS of my laptop, even if I could remember it. It
will probably be (named) different in the one others are using.

My laptop is slow, but O.K. for office work and some Internet surfing.
After fiddling with the BIOS it suddenly ran at about 10-20% of the
original speed, which was no longer workable. At the end I tried looking
into the BIOS, and there I found a CPU setting. I chose the option which
seemed to provide the best speed. And it did.
 
You are misunderstanding it if you think that I suggested
overclocking.


My laptop is an old Satellite Pro 460 CDT, but that doesn't matter.
All BIOSes are different, so there isn't much point in telling what
kind of setting it is in the BIOS of my laptop, even if I could
remember it. It will probably be (named) different in the one others
are using.

My laptop is slow, but O.K. for office work and some Internet surfing.
After fiddling with the BIOS it suddenly ran at about 10-20% of the
original speed, which was no longer workable. At the end I tried
looking into the BIOS, and there I found a CPU setting. I chose the
option which seemed to provide the best speed. And it did.
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Onno:

The reason I ask is that I am curious what kind of setting would be in
the BIOS that would allow a slower machine to run a DVD movie. The only
CPU settings I have seen are for setting the PC to run faster than the
CPU would normally allow.

I can see this is going nowhere, so please just forget it.

To the OP, I still do not think you will get smooth DVD playback on
anythign less than a 600 mhz machine.

JMHO, YMMV.

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I can remember a Freak in NBC (TV-Station).

He said, that he plays two DVD´s at the same time with a 500MHz Pentium!

Well, I don´t know how.....





Best Regards,

Daniel Mandic
 
| |
| > | >
| >> I am sorry, I did see the mentioning of the BIOS, but I took that as
| >> overclocking, which is not recommended for laptops. Am I
| >> misunderstanding what you mean?
| >>
| >
| > You are misunderstanding it if you think that I suggested
| > overclocking.
| >
| >> What kind of laptop / what kind of setting. You have me curious!
| >
| > My laptop is an old Satellite Pro 460 CDT, but that doesn't matter.
| > All BIOSes are different, so there isn't much point in telling what
| > kind of setting it is in the BIOS of my laptop, even if I could
| > remember it. It will probably be (named) different in the one others
| > are using.
| >
| > My laptop is slow, but O.K. for office work and some Internet surfing.
| > After fiddling with the BIOS it suddenly ran at about 10-20% of the
| > original speed, which was no longer workable. At the end I tried
| > looking into the BIOS, and there I found a CPU setting. I chose the
| > option which seemed to provide the best speed. And it did.
| >
| >
| >
|
| Onno:
|
| The reason I ask is that I am curious what kind of setting would be in
| the BIOS that would allow a slower machine to run a DVD movie. The only
| CPU settings I have seen are for setting the PC to run faster than the
| CPU would normally allow.
|
| I can see this is going nowhere, so please just forget it.
|
| To the OP, I still do not think you will get smooth DVD playback on
| anythign less than a 600 mhz machine.
|
| JMHO, YMMV.
|

I concluded the same thing! If one actually made a change in the BIOS
settings,
it would be very easy to state precisely what you changed that allowed the
increased
speed, or ability to play a DVD on an old slow machine (less than 700MHz).
But
when one yaks around and around without stating what he did, it makes it
suspect.
I've never seen an old machine run DVD's and over-clocking won't do it
either...
it may for a three minute trek..until you see the blue smoke rolling...then
KERBLAM!
That's the result. Software cannot overcome hardware limits.
 
I can remember a Freak in NBC (TV-Station).

He said, that he plays two DVD´s at the same time with a 500MHz
Pentium!

Well, I don´t know how.....





Best Regards,

Daniel Mandic
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Maybe running BeOS (That was a SWEET multimedia OS), but not Windows. I
am sorry, I just cannot buy that!

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