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punky · 07-11-2006, 13:28

I would say its the computer spec. Back when they laptop was built, it played videos because compression was simple, easy, and not memory intensive. However, as they get more and more fancy like DivX and XviD, older computers would struggle.

Like Paul, the best option is to try a very streamlined Linux distribution that will switch more resources from OS over to decompressing.

07-11-2006, 13:28	#5
punky Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Age: 44 Posts: 14,750	Re: laptop to media player I would say its the computer spec. Back when they laptop was built, it played videos because compression was simple, easy, and not memory intensive. However, as they get more and more fancy like DivX and XviD, older computers would struggle. Like Paul, the best option is to try a very streamlined Linux distribution that will switch more resources from OS over to decompressing.