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Newbie question about DVD
Hi,
What do I need to play a DVD-movie in my PC ? thanks in advance |
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On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 08:40:23 GMT, "El Jerid"
wrote: "Newbie" wrote in message ... Hi, What do I need to play a DVD-movie in my PC ? thanks in advance Only a DVD-ROM player and a reader software (WinDVD, PwerDVD). And of course, a "not to old" PC (Pentium 3 - 500 Mhz or better) and good VGA card (GeForce 3 or better). Geforce 3 or better is not needed. There is ZERO benefit to a Geforce 3 or better, over most older cards until you go back pretty far... Any card made in '98 would do fine. The minimum video card requirement might be enough video memory to support the resolution, and fast enough to display 30FPS in 2D, which is hardly demanding compared to 3D. For example, somewhere I still have an old ATI Rage II+ PCI 2MB EDO that plays DVD fine. For smoother playback motion compensation also helps, so with very old PCI cards ATI is better. In the late '90s partial MPEG decoding helped, but today with faster systems, it's unnecessary since the rest of the system could do that without any help. Beyond the video card, a 500MHz CPU is about right... A K6-3/450 could do it, as well as Celeron 533, PIII-500, etc, but at this minimal level it is important to have MPEG decoding features on the video card. Add about 150MHz worth of performance to above figures if the video card doesn't support it. Dave |
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