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Title: Playing DVDS
Post by: PGit on September 24, 2005, 02:45:15 PM

We are unable to play many DVD's on the PC. We have an 800mhz AMD Duron and a ATI Rage Fury Pro. Do we need a hardware decoder?

Title: Re: Playing DVDS
Post by: Zac67 on September 24, 2005, 02:52:41 PM

- DMA activated for all devices?
- running a decent driver for the Fury?
- enough RAM?
- DirectX OK? -> dxdiag
- what's the problem?

An Athlon 800 has more than enough power to decode DVDs if everything else is running smoothly.

Title: Re: Playing DVDS
Post by: PGit on September 24, 2005, 05:40:54 PM

We have 256mb and the graphics card has 32mb. According to Dxdiag, directx is running fine. Tried to install the lastest driver from the ATI site, according to DXdiag we have a Rage Fury Pro/Xpert 2000 Pro, however when i tried to install the lastest driver I recieved an error message saying it wasn't compatible with the display adapator.

Are there any better drivers?

Title: Re: Playing DVDS
Post by: Zac67 on September 24, 2005, 06:34:24 PM

You need the Rage / Rage 128 drivers.

Title: Re: Playing DVDS
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on September 24, 2005, 07:08:00 PM

search the web for a system-resource efficient dvd decode program

Title: Re: Playing DVDS
Post by: PGit on September 24, 2005, 07:26:57 PM

Quote

Zac67 wrote:
You need the Rage / Rage 128 drivers.

That's the one I've tried.

Title: Re: Playing DVDS
Post by: Zac67 on September 24, 2005, 07:33:26 PM

My crystal ball's currently out of order.
If you don't respond to suggestions and won't come up with more details (symptoms/platform), no one here will be able to help you.

Title: Re: Playing DVDS
Post by: mikeymike on September 24, 2005, 07:37:46 PM

You could also try VLC (www.videolan.org) as an alternative bit of DVD playback software.

Title: Re: Playing DVDS
Post by: PGit on September 24, 2005, 07:46:03 PM

It manages to play some however with others the DVD drive light flashes continously until the DVD is removed and that's it.
Platform is Windows ME.

Title: Re: Playing DVDS
Post by: Martin_Lee on September 25, 2005, 10:41:25 AM

well whatever happens you should ditch Windows ME!