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Mar 16th, 2002, 12:46 PM
mastermind94

DVD decoder

hey guys,

I have a 16x pacific digital DVD-Rom running on a 400mhz AMD k6-2 with 192 mb ram and voodoo3 3000 agp 3d-accelerator and the movies are running soo slow! Is there a way to play movies faster without upgrading all my stuff

btw, i have UDMA (2) activated and i'm running win2k pro

thanks
peace
Mar 16th, 2002, 12:48 PM
JungleMan

This is gonna be hardware related :(

If you want to go ahead and get an ATI Radeon 7500 or 8500 video card. Not only do they have great 3-D graphics but they are superior for DVD playback.

Your choice. :)
Mar 16th, 2002, 12:51 PM
mastermind94

yeah, i had a ATI Rage128 PCI, DVD playback was awesome but, games sucks.. what if i run both card at the same time? will it do the trick?
Mar 16th, 2002, 12:54 PM
JungleMan

Quote:

Originally posted by mastermind94
yeah, i had a ATI Rage128 PCI, DVD playback was awesome but, games sucks.. what if i run both card at the same time? will it do the trick?

Probably not gonna do much as DVD I am pretty sure is decoded with your primary adapter.
Mar 16th, 2002, 01:31 PM
Gandalf_Grey_

hehe always tyring to make everything a hardware issue eh JPB? Well in this case that is probaably the problem, however you might want to get Windvd made by intervideo, its the best DVD player out there, although it probably won't help you rproblem, it is a cool program :cool: :D
Mar 16th, 2002, 01:32 PM
JungleMan

Quote:

Originally posted by Gandalf_Grey_
hehe always tyring to make everything a hardware issue eh JPB? Well in this case that is probaably the problem, however you might want to get Windvd made by intervideo, its the best DVD player out there, although it probably won't help you rproblem, it is a cool program :cool: :D

Actually it is a hardware issue. No matter what DVD program he gets it's not going to help him.

I had a P2 350 that ran DVDs just fine but it had a hardware decoder board.
Mar 16th, 2002, 01:36 PM
Gandalf_Grey_

ya i know but windvd is a good program :D
Mar 16th, 2002, 01:40 PM
mastermind94

i know it is

i'm using PowerDVD and WinDVD and PowerDVD is faster than WinDVD....:p
Mar 16th, 2002, 02:04 PM
CyberSurfer

Part of the problem may also be with your K6-2, which preceded DVD's somewhat....I may be wrong on this, but I think that this, as well as your Video card is causing the problem....
Mar 17th, 2002, 07:43 PM
Dillinger4

Yeah watching DVD's on a substandard
system can be a horror show. I have a
pII 400Mhz running 64Mb Ram off of a
3dfx Voodoo Banshee1. The playback
isnt too bad. A little choppy at times
though. The problem is that when using
the default decoder that comes with the
dvd's (InterActual) somtimes i get a CSS
error. What ever that is. :confused:
Mar 17th, 2002, 07:52 PM
JungleMan

Quote:

Originally posted by CyberSurfer
Part of the problem may also be with your K6-2, which preceded DVD's somewhat....I may be wrong on this, but I think that this, as well as your Video card is causing the problem....

One of the marketing things for the Pentium II was that it was good for DVDs...
Mar 17th, 2002, 07:52 PM

Re: DVD decoder

Quote:

Originally posted by mastermind94
hey guys,

I have a 16x pacific digital DVD-Rom running on a 400mhz AMD k6-2 with 192 mb ram and voodoo3 3000 agp 3d-accelerator and the movies are running soo slow! Is there a way to play movies faster without upgrading all my stuff

btw, i have UDMA (2) activated and i'm running win2k pro

thanks
peace

yeah, turn off all programs that are running in the background. might not help much but it is a shot if you don't upgrade.

and stay off-line and away from the porn sites...:D
Mar 19th, 2002, 11:18 PM
mastermind94

Re: Re: DVD decoder

Quote:

Originally posted by scoutt

and stay off-line and away from the porn sites...:D

Hmm, whoops, probably that' why :D