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I recently ran across a divx codec at a website and installed it, didn't have any use for it until today. I have a CD with some avi files on it and the video plays extremely slow. When I bring up properties it says that it is using the Divx Decoder. Is there a decent Divx codec that will work on a slower system??? I would appreciate any advice
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get the newest codec. if the video isnt getting faster, then copy it down to the Harddisk and play it, cause your cdrom might be too slow.
greez
Seth
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Lol, that's what I am using the Divx bundle 5.03. Makes no difference on CDROM or hardrive. I have managed to convert a few of them to plain old MPEGs and can watch them that way. Don't reccomend this to anyone without a much newer PC. Thanks anyway Seth.
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I agree with Steven W. I too had installed divx 5.03 on my celeron 500 machine. After that all my video files were playing extremely slow, even the ones that had played properly before. Even after I uninstalled that bundle, the results were the same. The only way I could fix it was to do a clean re-install of the os. The bundle works fine on my amd 1800xp machine. And I read somewhere subsequently that divx 5.03 won't work properly on older machines.
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Hello,
The first thing to do is to copy the files to the HDD. If they play slow when not in full screen mode then you probably need a bigger CPU or video card. If you have problems at full screen then try lowering your desktop resolution.
My home PC use to be a 450Mhz P3 with a 32MB video card, and I could run almost all movies at full screen with a desktop resolution of 1152x864. Now at work I have a 600Mhz P3 with an 8MB card, and to get movies to run full screen I have to drop the desktop resolution to 800x600.
HTH
Alastor
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Hello,
The first thing to do is to copy the files to the HDD. If they play slow when not in full screen mode then you probably need a bigger CPU or video card. If you have problems at full screen then try lowering your desktop resolution.
My home PC use to be a 450Mhz P3 with a 32MB video card, and I could run almost all movies at full screen with a desktop resolution of 1152x864. Now at work I have a 600Mhz P3 with an 8MB card, and to get movies to run full screen I have to drop the desktop resolution to 800x600.
HTH
Alastor
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Okay guys thanks for all the tips but nothing really seems to work tried uninstalling the Divx bundle and installing the Nimo lite pack resulted in no video. Installed Nimo codec pack build 8. The results were a little better, not much, which is odd considering it uses the Divx bundle too. I have seen lesser systems playback DVDs isn't the same technology needed to decode the video and audio for these???
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