divx playback minimum requirements

[JerroldV1]

I'm tryng to playback divx files on my older computer. It is about a 9 year old first generation pentium 150 with 32 mb ram running windows 98. I can playback mpeg with no problems but wmv files run slow though. I installed divx 5.21 bundle that I downloaded from divx-digest and tried to play a video first with zoom player, then with WMP and both times my computer froze; I could still move the cursor around but that was it and I had to do a hard reboot. The divx player that installed along with the divx codec crashed when I tried to load it. I unstalled the codec and tried to install ffdshow, the generic 2004 version, and with zoom player I get an "external exception C000001D" and with WMP I get "MPLAYER2 executed an invalid instruction in
module FFDSHOW.AX at 015f:100661a1."

Should a divx file be able to playback on my old computer?

[LT. Columbo]

you should read this:

http://www.divx.com/divx/system_requirements.php

[JerroldV1]

Thanks. Isn't the information on that page specific to divx 6? It states that among the minimum requirements is windows 2000 or XP. I'm trying to use divx 5.x which I was able to use fine in windows 98 on my other computer.

[anonymez]

the chances of getting a decent resolution divx/xvid file running on a p 150 is extremely slim, as it is dependent almost entirely on CPU power. to play mpeg-4 with least possible cpu/resourece usage, stick with ffdshow, and for playing it back, use either "media player classic" or "mplayer"

hell, i could'nt get a 720x400 xvid running on an AMD K6-2 500MHz, and it had 64mb ram...