DVD Decoders and etc.

[Pata]

I installed an LG DVD GDR 8163B on my old desktop computer (PIII 667) and then installed a DVD Decoder pack for windows and tried to watch a movie. I got the sound but no picture! So I uninstalled it and tried a different decoder and after hours of trying I sort of gave up. Then I popped in a DVD movie and Real player came up, so I tried using that. A message came up saying that I needed a decoder, so I reinstalled the original DVD Decoder and then a second message came up saying something about the resolution. I then went to "Settings" and turned the 1024 X 768 to 800 X 600 and tried WMP and it worked! On this old computer I have been using the on board video and now I am wondering if I should change that to a real video card. Could that solve the problem of me having to change the resolution every time I want to watch a movie?

 

[Mr5oh]

You will need a better video card to play DVDs smoothly at higher resolutions.

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[Pata]

I thought so.... Thanks.

 

[Mr5oh]

Yeah I kept trying to play DVDs back when I first gotten a DVD-Rom drives, and mine kept skipping, at higher resolutions (was trying to run 1280x1024, but even 1024x768 wouldn't play smoothly). At the time I was running a TNT2 32 MB AGP card. After talking to a my friend at the computer shop, he said it was my video card. I ended up ordering a new video card, got a really killer deal on a TI4400, which had just been released. Installed it in the same exact system and the problems disappeared.

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