Is my laptop too crappy to play 720p anime files?
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Recently I’ve been watching, or attempting to watch 720p anime on my laptop. Usually I just stream them online from sites like crunchyroll, but the video and sound quality for these files are much better than online streaming, so I’ve been using this instead.
Problem is, my laptop is ancient. I must’ve got this thing over six years ago and it’s pretty much exactly the same as it was when I first picked it up. Looking around on google, I’ve learned that CCCP is usually the preferred utility of choice when watching anime. That, along with the use of media player classic-home cinema. All this is well and fine, but I’ve noticed that the audio and video will gradually fall out of sync as the episode/movie goes on. In further researching this problem on google, I’m coming ever-so-much-closer to the conclusion that my processor just isn’t cool enough to run this mkv file. I’ve even, at the suggestion of many a webpage, installed CoreAvc just to see if it’d make a difference. Sadly, it does not.
So for my question– are there any other changes I can make by way of additional software, tweaks in existing software, or is my laptop better used as a paperweight when it comes to running these files? If it’s just too outdated, are there any suggestions for a reasonably-priced desktop that can smoothly run 720p files, even perhaps 1080p?
I’ve tried using k-lite, vlc, and messed around with the options in CoreAvc and media player classic countless times already. My device drivers are also fully updated far as I know, but no matter what I try it seems more and more likely that this is probably a hardware issue. Here are a multitude of specs for my fossil of a computer (however relevant)–
Sony Vaio
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2
Intel Pentium M Processor 1300 MHz
510 MB of Ram
Ati Mobility Radeon AGP with 350 MHz DAC and 16 MB of memory
DirectX 9.0
Yamaha AC-XG WDM Audio
Any assistance anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much,
-J
Best answer:
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Although you can do a few maintenance tasks such as cleaning the registry, defragmenting the drive and uninstalling unused software, as you say you can’t get around the fact that you have a very old laptop. More memory would help but replacing the whole machine would work far better.
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