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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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.

"Cody" <codynews@o2.pl> wrote in message
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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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"Cody" <codynewsDELETEIT@o2.pl> wrote in
news:cguv70$sm8$1@julia.coi.pw.edu.pl:

> 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?


so, you want to take some of that 64MB or RAM and send it to your graphics
card?

probably not possible. anyways, i think you are dreaming in general...
your windows 98, 2.5MB Video RAM, 64MB regular RAM is just not a good
vehicle for watching multimedia....

decoding video takes RAM and processing power, both of which you are sorely
lacking...