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by Marcus Yam, Jul 25, 1999 4:19am PDTI finally jumped on the DVD-ROM bandwagon and picked up a Pioneer 6x slot loading drive, no decoding card though. So I slap it in the system, and now I'm faced with the dilemma of which software DVD decoder to use. So far I've gotten the impression that WinDVD is the best one, but unfortunately their website is down and I've heard that there isn't a trial demo available. Zoran doesn't cut it, so I'm stuck with this ATi player (which is Cinemaster based) that is surprisingly good, close to a set top box. Next up is to get a G400MAX to get that Dual Head action going, and to hunt down a pair of week 21 (or more recent) Celeron 366s. Now that I have a drive, I really hope Final Fantasy 8 has a DVD version. Having to swap discs sucks, and high quality cinemas would rock.
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BTW the combination of a SCSI drive and hardware decoder means that it only takes up %15 of my processor (Celeron 300@374). I often play Quake with headphones while my niece watches DVD movies on the TV.
i have a problem though. since i got this pioneer 6x dvd, anytime i play a game that uses the cd, it skips.
when i move windows while playing a cd, they also skip, and i don\'t mean skip as in the music, everything is very jerky.....
i have already checked dma and removed everything in safe mode, does anybody have any ideas what the problem could be.
my old 12x cdrom played perfectly, and nothing was jerky.
i have no idea what the problem could be.
i use xing dvd and it plays those fine, but games and general windows in extremely jerky when a music cd is playing.....
please help.
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And Matrox is having problems getting those G400Max cards out there, thus it\'s impossible for me to get one.
Too bad Matrox is having supply problems- you snooze, you lose :-|
Cinemaster plays fine for me, but sometimes
the audio and video go out of sync. I thought
it was a problem with the drive, but it turns
out the scsi card i got was too slow. so i got
a new scsi card on the way...