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Title: leaping into the 90's
Post by: peroxidechicken on November 04, 2005, 11:18:19 PM

I'm looking for a pci video card that can do dvd/mpeg2 playback and has either composite or svideo outputs.  

My system has a 233MHz pentium 1 (it seems some cards/drivers won't work with older cpus).  

Thanks in advance.  

Title: Re: leaping into the 90's
Post by: glitch on November 04, 2005, 11:26:10 PM

Hi,

    An ATI "All-in-Wonder" PCI version had DVD decoding capabilities but I think the software I had only ran under Win9x.  They have RF/Composite/S-Video in/out via breakout cables.  If you're interested I can have a look around to see if I've still got one.

-G

Title: Re: leaping into the 90's
Post by: Merc on November 05, 2005, 12:12:53 AM

Look for a Hollywood DVD card -- I had one in a P200 years ago and it was flawless for playing DVD's.  Really nice quality and it does have svideo outputs and also spdif out I think.

See here: http://www.digivision.it/docs/hollywoodplus.html

Title: Re: leaping into the 90's
Post by: billchase on November 05, 2005, 02:21:26 AM

The creative line of DVD drives with the DXr3 and Dxr2 decoder
cards also work well.  They were basically rebranded Hollywood
cards.  I can't vouch for the dxr2, but I did have the dxr3 card
which worked well.  Just make sure you have software that
supports the card.  These cards also like to have its own IRQ.
YMMV, but I got the best results when the decoder card didn't
share with another device.

C Snyder