Free video player that *doesn't* depend on DirectX?

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Chaos Master

Hello people.

I need a free video player that *must not* depend on DirectX (it will run on a
200MHz Pentium with Windows 95, and AFAIK DirectX isn't supported anymore for
this platform).

I tried BSPlayer but it requires DirectX 7 or better, and I am not wanting to
install latest DirectX.

Do you know of any?

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Chaos Master said:
Hello people.

I need a free video player that *must not* depend on DirectX (it will run
on a
200MHz Pentium with Windows 95, and AFAIK DirectX isn't supported anymore
for
this platform).

I tried BSPlayer but it requires DirectX 7 or better, and I am not wanting
to
install latest DirectX.

Do you know of any?
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I remember the old versions of BSPlayer had an NT version that didn't
require DirectX. I guess they abandoned that.

I'd be shocked if http://videolan.org/vlc/ required DirectX and it plays
just about everything out-of-box.

I'd be surprised if media player classic (http://tinyurl.com/24pdk )
required it either.

However, know that any DivX files will never play on a 200mhz system. MPEG1
yes, and maybe 2.

Karen
http://scootgirl.com/
 
U¿ytkownik scootgirl.com napisa³:
Do you know if the Windows port of VLC requires it?
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From the VLC docs:

"
directx: default enabled on win32

For Windows only

This video output uses Microsoft Direct X libraries. It is recommended
for the win32 port.

wingdi: default enabled on win32

For Windows only

This video output uses GDI. It is designed for users who don't have
Direct X, but the perfs are very low. If you have DirectX installed on
your system, do not use the wingdi video output
"

So it looks that DirectX output is default but you can disable it by
putting --vout wingdi in the command line. However, they mention that
the performance is low.

Hubert
 
Chaos said:
Hello people.

I need a free video player that *must not* depend on DirectX (it will run on a
200MHz Pentium with Windows 95, and AFAIK DirectX isn't supported anymore for
this platform).

I tried BSPlayer but it requires DirectX 7 or better, and I am not wanting to
install latest DirectX.

Do you know of any?
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ExaWare Mediabrowser is an excellent lightweight, er, media browser. It
is apparently not fully supported for W95, whatever that means. I don't
know if it needs DirectX, but I would certainly recommend you give it a
try

http://www.nuonsoft.com/mediabrowser/downloads.htm

It is what i use on my 98SE, 233 with 32mb RAM.
 
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So it looks that DirectX output is default but you can disable it by
putting --vout wingdi in the command line. However, they mention that the
performance is low.

Hubert
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Thanks. Yeah that makes sense. I long ago gave into DirectX on my systems
because of graphics performance boosts though I definitely see why someone
wouldn't want it on a win95 computer.

Karen
http://scootgirl.com/
 
jo wrote within:
You sure of this?
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I am sure. Using the official DivX player (total bloatware/spyware), the system
slows down to a crawl, even on a 400MHz Pentium. For DivX, a 800MHz or better
CPU is good.

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Chaos said:
jo wrote within:

I am sure. Using the official DivX player (total bloatware/spyware), the system
slows down to a crawl, even on a 400MHz Pentium. For DivX, a 800MHz or better
CPU is good.
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Yep. I just tried one on a 233; it was interesting. :-)
 
jo dumped core:
ExaWare Mediabrowser is an excellent lightweight, er, media browser. It
is apparently not fully supported for W95, whatever that means. I don't
know if it needs DirectX, but I would certainly recommend you give it a
try

http://www.nuonsoft.com/mediabrowser/downloads.htm

It is what i use on my 98SE, 233 with 32mb RAM.
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I will try it, and the other suggestions too.


Thanks to all that helped.

[]s
 
jo dumped core:

[DivX on slow PC]
Yep. I just tried one on a 233; it was interesting. :-)
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I tried it right now on my 233 / (recently upgraded to) 64MB RAM.
Ran out of disk space while swap file was being used. :D

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