I am looking into buying a DVD drive and I want to spend as little as possible...but I still want a good setup (as anyone would...).
I have a Leadtek GeForce DDR rev.A, which does have hardware DVD decoding...but I do not know how much. Leadtek's website says the card has these forms of "video acceleration":
-DVD and HDTV-ready motion compensation for MPEG-2 decoding
-DVD sub-picture alpha blended composting
-Hardware YUV 4:2:2 and 4:2:0 color space conversion support
-Multi-tap X and Y filtering
-8:1 up and down scaling on video overlay
-Industry's first 5-tap horizontal by 3-tap vertical video filtering
-Supports planar YUV12 (4:2:0) to /from packed (4:2:2) conversion for software MPEG acceleration
-Video acceleration for DirectShow?, MPEG-2 and MPEG-1
Can I use this video card as a hardware DVD decoder. Or would I benefit from buying a decoder card too. Is there an advantage to using a decoder card over using my videocard?
Also, my videocard came with WinFastDVD packaged - is this a good DVD playback package?
I am running all of this using the 6.18 detonators under win2k. Will DVD playback work under win2k? Does WinFastDVD work under win2k (sorry...this is a software question).
Finally...looking at it from a price to performance thing, which is better:
Creative Labs 12xDVD/40xCD with Dxr3 decoder card and bundled software for $200
Pioneer 16x slot loading DVD drive ~$135
My video card for DVD decoding $free
Bundled WinFastDVD software $free
Leadtek Geforce DDR revA
Creative Labs 12xDVD w/ Dxr3 decoder
thanks...
I have a Leadtek GeForce DDR rev.A, which does have hardware DVD decoding...but I do not know how much. Leadtek's website says the card has these forms of "video acceleration":
-DVD and HDTV-ready motion compensation for MPEG-2 decoding
-DVD sub-picture alpha blended composting
-Hardware YUV 4:2:2 and 4:2:0 color space conversion support
-Multi-tap X and Y filtering
-8:1 up and down scaling on video overlay
-Industry's first 5-tap horizontal by 3-tap vertical video filtering
-Supports planar YUV12 (4:2:0) to /from packed (4:2:2) conversion for software MPEG acceleration
-Video acceleration for DirectShow?, MPEG-2 and MPEG-1
Can I use this video card as a hardware DVD decoder. Or would I benefit from buying a decoder card too. Is there an advantage to using a decoder card over using my videocard?
Also, my videocard came with WinFastDVD packaged - is this a good DVD playback package?
I am running all of this using the 6.18 detonators under win2k. Will DVD playback work under win2k? Does WinFastDVD work under win2k (sorry...this is a software question).
Finally...looking at it from a price to performance thing, which is better:
Creative Labs 12xDVD/40xCD with Dxr3 decoder card and bundled software for $200
Pioneer 16x slot loading DVD drive ~$135
My video card for DVD decoding $free
Bundled WinFastDVD software $free
Leadtek Geforce DDR revA
Creative Labs 12xDVD w/ Dxr3 decoder
thanks...