SVCD on Pentium 166

[asko58]

hi everyone,

can anybody tell me if it's possible to play a SVCD on a Pentium 166 Mhz computer with 80 Mb RAM? Quality loss would be ok while playing. (Line Interleave or something like that...)
I tried with PowerDVD and some other programms, but the result could be compared to a slideshow.

Thanks,
asko58

 

[KiwiKid]

I can't answer your question exactly but I tried playing a VCD for the first time last night. I have a Pentium II 266 with 128 of RAM and I downloaded WinDVD because w*w.vcdhelp.com recommended it. At first all I got was a green screen but I did have sound but after reducing colour to 16bit I had a picture too. The picture wasn't bad,dropping the occasional frame but was quite watchable. I was surprised my system would play VCDs as it seemed to struggle with movie trailers on demo disks. Try asking at vcdhelp-it looks like a great site. Good luck.

 

[ChickenMan]

asko58, I think your pushing it to expect to play SVCD's on a P166. If your CDROM player can handle DMA and your M/B has DMA support, make sure its turned on (control panel/device manager/cdrom)

If you keep the playback screen to a small size and not full screen it should play okay, and buy a large magnifying glass!

VCD playback should be fine on a P166 however.

 

[asko58]

thanks for the help but it seems to be too slow for SVCDs even if I resize the picture to the size of a stamp. guess I have to buy a PCMCIA MPEG-2 Decoder Card...

asko58