Originally posted by: alukard
I need a player that can play a movie in resolution larger than 320x 278 on my slow cpu

I have a 1.8 ghz Athlon 2800 XP with 768 mb ram and a very organized HD with 60 gb free on a 80 gb 7200 rpm IBM Deskstar but it still plays movie very poorly. I dont know why. I tried all the video players. I even tried disabling all the applications that arent needed. Is it hardware or a virus issue? I have Norton and Mcafee installed with Mcafee firewall and Spyware doctor.

dude, no wonder, just use one of them, even better uninstall them and install Avast as the antivirus and Zonealarm as the firewall, or just leave the windows firewall on. And I dont think it is Hardware related, you probably have like 1000 programs running in the background, uninstall Spyware doctor as well and just install ad-aware and just use it once in a while, you are just wasting resources. I had a 1Ghz Celeron with only 256 MB and it would run videos w/o a hitch.

Use VLC as it uses no system resources and it is a very complete media player.