what would be the minimum requirments to

monkeyhead · Post by **monkeyhead** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 10:29 pm

build a comp that would be strictly for DVD playing.

play it smoothly, but thats all that it will be doing.

dont even need it to have super sound.

Zilog B · Post by **Zilog B** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 10:31 pm

Get one of those via epia boards, they are cool!

Has a built in Lan, sound, tv out, mpeg2 decoder, cpu, very quiet, no cpu fan required.

Hopeful · Post by **Hopeful** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 10:52 pm

i have an old pentium iii 600 mhz that can play dvd smooth... heck... you dont need much... just make shure the video card is dvd compliant (almost all are these days) and make shure that you have a DVD drive!

Mehmet · Post by **Mehmet** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 10:53 pm

Originally posted by schlurpee
Get one of those via epia boards, they are cool!

Has a built in Lan, sound, tv out, mpeg2 decoder, cpu, very quiet, no cpu fan required.

im not sure about those EPIAs for DVD playback

ProjectTwin on the [h] forums (the person who built the chevy avalanche PC) was having trouble playing back DVDs at a nice FPS.

im not totally sure though.. read his thread on the cool cases forum.

monkeyhead · Post by **monkeyhead** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 10:58 pm

Originally posted by Hopeful
i have an old pentium iii 600 mhz that can play dvd smooth... heck... you dont need much... just make shure the video card is dvd compliant (almost all are these days) and make shure that you have a DVD drive!

i have to have a DVD drive????

teehee

thinking about getting this

i already have a 900 celeron and RAM

i got a old 6 gig hard drive, WD caviar
radeon 7000 32meg with svideo out
onboard audio should be plenty
also my pops is gonna make the box.... so its super small
it will be to play divx and DVD's

monkeyhead · Post by **monkeyhead** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 11:00 pm

oh and yea... i'll need to purchase a DVD drive....

so now the question is this.... is it worth it to build this or just buy a crappy low end DVD player

got a buncha divx... and most likely they will be played off of the network... so i dont have to burn em

Hopeful · Post by **Hopeful** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 11:05 pm

You better put a HECK of a screen on this bad boy

monkeyhead · Post by **monkeyhead** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 11:12 pm

Originally posted by Hopeful
You better put a HECK of a screen on this bad boy

whatya mean?

im hookin it up to my family room tv.... i think its like 36 inch or something.... aint to big....

Hopeful · Post by **Hopeful** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 11:37 pm

Originally posted by monkeyhead
whatya mean?

im hookin it up to my family room tv.... i think its like 36 inch or something.... aint to big....

yeah a computer screen would be insufficient unless you got a nice flat panel... but hooking to tv is even better!... why dont you just buy a dvd player?

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Tue Mar 11, 2003 3:09 am

hehe, check this out...i want one of

These

I know its tom's but you get the point

monkeyhead · Post by **monkeyhead** » Tue Mar 11, 2003 11:00 am

Originally posted by Hopeful
yeah a computer screen would be insufficient unless you got a nice flat panel... but hooking to tv is even better!... why dont you just buy a dvd player?

well the reason for not getting a dvd player is cause, i have spare parts lying around which might mean i only need to get a DVD drive for 40 beans..... i do have a micro atx mobo... only problem is i cant install winxp, 2k, only 98/me on it..... its got some issue....

so anyway also cause i have a file server thats got like 150 something movies on it.... and well i dont want to burn and watch... id rather play them off the network... and if im gonna build a comp to do that, i might as wel just throw in a DVD drive...

Jstyr · Post by **Jstyr** » Tue Mar 11, 2003 4:01 pm

Get a Playstation II

edit* just read your above post..can't pull files off the net with your PS II but you CAN play GTA Vice City!!! woohoo!!

monkeyhead · Post by **monkeyhead** » Tue Mar 11, 2003 4:14 pm

Originally posted by Jstyr
Get a Playstation II

edit* just read your above post..can't pull files off the net with your PS II but you CAN play GTA Vice City!!! woohoo!!

the last console i will ever own is and was the the nintendo 64

vie city will eventually come out for pc

vc_wannabe · Post by **vc_wannabe** » Thu Mar 13, 2003 12:20 am

I could play DVD's On my PII 300mhz 32mb of ram. Of course it had a hardware decoder.

el bob · Post by **el bob** » Thu Mar 13, 2003 8:25 pm

Asus P2B
Pentium 3 500MHz
2x Micron 128MB PC133 @ PC100
1x Samsung 256MB PC133 @ PC100
400W ATX PSU
Radeon 7200 w/ VIVO
3Com 3C905B-TX
Creative SB Live! Value
40GB Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM ATA/100
CD-ROM
FDD

Those are the specs of my movie comp and it has trouble playing
SVCDs from the CD-ROM (after about an hour it starts to skip and the video is fine --checked on a faster comp)

I havn't had the time to carefully diagnose the problem yet

It actually has a DVD-ROM and a CD-RW. I think the DVD drive is defective though. However I still have the problem when I use the CD-RW which I'm 99.9% sure works flawlessly.

dj_tigger1982 · Post by **dj_tigger1982** » Sat Mar 15, 2003 10:49 am

are you just wanting to play only dvd's on the computer... if so why waste your cash, I would just buy a dvd player and 5.1 surround sound package and use ur t.v