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First post, by Kahenraz

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Does anyone know if there is an XviD release that works on Windows 98 with a Pentium MMX? I'm having trouble where either the installer or codec isn't working with Windows 98 or it requires some form of SSE.

I'm also wondering if there is a release that was ever compiled without MMX as a requirement at all.

Reply 2 of 4, by Repo Man11

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I can remember watching divx clips on my Biostar MB8500 VX chipset board with an Evergreen (Winchip) 200 MHz CPU with Win98 SE in the spring of 2001. But I have no idea where to get a codec that would support that now.
Something like this maybe? http://www.divx-digest.com/software/divxcodec.html

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Reply 3 of 4, by jmarsh

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All the assembly functions in xvid are optionally used if certain CPU features are detected. In other words all builds should be capable of running on machines without MMX... assuming they've been compiled by older compilers that don't assume such features will be present and use them when processing the C files. They would be too slow to be of any use on anything without at least MMX though.

Reply 4 of 4, by bakemono

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I've used XviD VFW codec on Pentium MMX before, under Win98 (and NT 3.51 too BTW), so I know the older versions worked at least. FWIW, the XVIDVFW.DLL I have is dated June 2009

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