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Offline PGitTopic starter

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Playing DVDS
« 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?
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Re: Playing DVDS
« Reply #1 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.
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Re: Playing DVDS
« Reply #2 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?
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Re: Playing DVDS
« Reply #3 on: September 24, 2005, 06:34:24 PM »
You need the Rage / Rage 128 drivers.
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Re: Playing DVDS
« Reply #4 on: September 24, 2005, 07:08:00 PM »
search the web for a system-resource efficient dvd decode program
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Re: Playing DVDS
« Reply #5 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.
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Re: Playing DVDS
« Reply #6 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.
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Re: Playing DVDS
« Reply #7 on: September 24, 2005, 07:37:46 PM »
You could also try VLC (www.videolan.org) as an alternative bit of DVD playback software.
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Re: Playing DVDS
« Reply #8 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.
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Re: Playing DVDS
« Reply #9 on: September 25, 2005, 10:41:25 AM »
well whatever happens you should ditch Windows ME!
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