From: Bruce Markowitz (scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: Sat Jun 15 2002 - 16:52:57 EDT
Fergitit
The CPU and video are just not fast enough.
Best results will be had using the old Active Movie in full screen mode wtih
the video set to 256 colors.
Still will not be good
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Machule" <pmachule_at_hotmail.com>
To: "Chrys" <chrys_at_addr.com>; "thinkpad" <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: improving vcd playback
> Beg borrow or steal more memory .
> Enable DMA for the CD .
> Enable DMA for the HD.
> Beg borrow or steal more memory .
> Make you swapfile fixed , not dynamic .
> Derfrag HD first
> Pick a size at least 2-3 times your Ram ..
> Beg borrow or steal more memory .
> Kill any background applications .
> etc...
> also play with the preread / look ahead buffer for the CD ,
> In some cases disabling it , significantly improves some things .
> all this stuff is in control panel - system
> ..peter..
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chrys" <chrys_at_addr.com>
> To: "thinkpad" <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 3:14 PM
> Subject: improving vcd playback
>
>
> > Hello, thinkpad users,
> > I have a question here that I know there may be no help for,
> > but I figured I'd ask anyway.
> > I have a 755cd which I just added a 20x CDROM drive to. Also has
> > 24 megs of RAM and windows 95. Also DirectX 6 installed.
> > I tried playing a VCD on this system, and it does indeed play, the
> video playback looks fine, but is slow and jerky, and so is out of sync
with
> the audio. Audio playback sounds flawless, however.
> > Does anyone have any suggestions for improving playback quality? I
> figure the chance is slim, but I'm no worse off for asking.
> > Best regards.
> > Chrys
> > chrys_at_addr.com
> > 2002-06-22
> >
> >
> >
>
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