i cant see a vcd or hear mp3 cd on my 486 machine with trident 8900 display card presently the output comes in frames but not in a continues flow . please suggest me the correct way or a link where i can get the help. thank you for the effort you made it makes the world a better place.

-- edisonlazarus (edisonlaz@yahoo.com), October 15, 2002

Answers

You could upgrade your PC. Sorry to state the obvious, but I'm not sure that any 486 is suitable for watching VCD. I think a Pentium is a requirement.

-- guess (guess@who.com), October 16, 2002.

The world would indeed be a better place if you consigned your 486 to a landfill first and took a Pentium for your MP3 and VCD activities. If nobody told you yet, now you know you need a Pentium. You'll get to this sooner or later.

-- Mehmet Tekdemir (turk690@yahoo.com), October 17, 2002.

Someday all Pentiums would meet their fate, just like the 486 did.

-- (!@!.!), October 19, 2002.

MP3 files will play on a 486 if the quality of playback is reduced. Im not sure about VCD though. Virtually all computers in use are out of date, so there is no reason to throw your PC on a "land fill". Indeed, a 486 can make a brilliant media file server on a home LAN. I own lots of ancient computers, and do not ever intend to dump them. I am writing this message on a 486 100Mhz with 64MB RAM, and a 2.1GB hard drive. It runs Windows 98SE beautifully.

-- Matthew Green (piratez_99@hotmail.com), February 01, 2004.