HI im trying to play mpeg movies on my Pentium 75 40 meg ram i windows media player windows its realy slow but it looks good when i make it full screen the playback is speed is perfect but for some unknown reason it drops the display down to 256 color`s for playing (picture looks bad but if you blur your eyes and sit about 5 meters back it looks ok) dose anyone know who it dose that ? is there a way to fix it ? the gfx chip is western digital and the laptop is tp 755cx if theres no fix do you know any other file format that will playback fast on this spec and has a some compression (not uncompressed because its 300 meg for about 3 min of video) thanks

damm spellings "i windows media player windows its realy slow but it looks good" should say "I got windows media player windowd its realy slow but it looks good" "know who it dose that " should be "know why it dose that " sorry about my bad spellings i checked back after i posted it and realised

your video card will not support more colors at full screen. also you are expanding the picture to a larger size then it was recorded at. this makes it look grainy.

yea i was I made the mpg at CIF and put it to full screen and it automaticaly changes the screen size from 800x600 to sometihng lower (cant tell what) and it looks like it puts it into 256 dither mode (pixel blending) CIF is vcd quality 300x288 or something cant quite remember at the moment if the card has a built in mpeg decoder that could be its default but i dont know if it dose and its just a guess ??? so if i cant get mpeg working good what other format would you recomend for a p75 ? also dose anyone know mpeg minimum hardware requirements ? thanks ;)

I do not believe that it changes your resolution (you could check in Display proerties before, during and after). I believe it is as noted by Jim. I can not more with that problem but IESpell a free browser extention can help with the other problem if it is of interest to you.

it would be nice if i use IE :) but thanks ( i use mozilla ) i cant check the display when playback but i do know it resizes the screen because the picture in the monitor becomes smaller (monitor dose not strtch smaller res to end of screen list most of them do)

you can use a different program.