My MS-DOS QuickBASIC AVI player... this time on a 286 laptop.

Same file and program as my last video with the 486, but this is a 12 MHz 286 laptop. Considering the hardware, I think my program is performing pretty well.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• quickbasic
• avi
• player
• dos

[crogeek]

And it plays AVI?

As I know MPEG is less CPU hungry than AVI, also try to play MPEG (1. verson) on this CPU.

[kingcrimson234]

@crogeek AVI itself is just a file format, and doesn't actually specify a compression method. you can use many different types of compression with AVI, like MPEG-4 (XvID/DiVX/etc) or MJPEG. actually you could even use MPEG-1 inside an AVI.

is this video, the video data in the AVI is completely uncompressed. this by far the least amount of CPU possible. the drawback is that uncompressed video takes massive amounts of hard drive space.

[crogeek]

@kingcrimson234 I am suprised how this CPU can handle videos. I thought before that real minimal CPU for playing AVI videos is actually p2 233mhz , but for DVD minimal is p3 500, 64mb RAM as I remember