divx movies on my toshiba laptop

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I'm having satellite Toshiba genuineintel

family 6 model 8 stepping 1

with graphic card trident cyber9525 - 2.5MB



windows 98

ram 64





I have install directX 8.1 and video codecs like divx xvid ffdshow and ac3
filter

and the ting is about picture from windows media player

when I'm turning full screen - picture is still small and not even in the
center of monitor

when I haven't install directx 8.1 it was even worst - cause picture was
rotated 180 degrees and in the up left canner of the screen - still small



can anybody tell me what's wrong and what do I have to do?

thnx

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OK - maybe it's like I have not enough memory on my graphic card.
But is there something I can do to prevent playing movies like I've wrote?
Maybe some actions in BIOS to give some RAM memory extra to graphic card.
Have any ideas?


> I would guess your 2.5MB video card is limiting the size of video it can
> handle. The laptop seems very limited for multimedia capabilities.
>



> > I'm having satellite Toshiba genuineintel
> >
> > family 6 model 8 stepping 1
> >
> > with graphic card trident cyber9525 - 2.5MB
> >
> >
> >
> > windows 98
> >
> > ram 64
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I have install directX 8.1 and video codecs like divx xvid ffdshow and
ac3
> > filter
> >
> > and the ting is about picture from windows media player
> >
> > when I'm turning full screen - picture is still small and not even in
the
> > center of monitor
> >
> > when I haven't install directx 8.1 it was even worst - cause picture was
> > rotated 180 degrees and in the up left canner of the screen - still
small
> >
> >
> >
> > can anybody tell me what's wrong and what do I have to do?
> >
> > thnx
> >
> >
>
>

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> with graphic card trident cyber9525 - 2.5MB
> when I'm turning full screen - picture is still small and not even in the
> center of monitor

1. Use the DivX Player, it frequently gives better (smoother) playback
than WMP.
2. Set the BIOS to enable screen expansion. I think this is _probably_
your main problem.

I've had other laptops based around this chipset and had no problem
playing back fullscreen video.