Here's my two cents.  I have a Hitachi DVD and a Diamond Viper V550 AGP
card.  I use Win DVD, and play DVD movies with very little problems (running
Windows 2000 Pro).  Every once in a great while I get a freeze or the
audio/video timing gets off after pausing.  Nothing that restarting the
movie won't fix.  Other than that, it works great.

Kyle Elmblade
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From: "Joe Lore" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 6:33 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] dvd probs


> Generally the newer video cards of today will do Decoding with a program
> like Cyberlinks Power DVD or with WIN DVD.  You should not have to get a
> hardware decoder.  You can download a trial version of PowerDVD from the
> web to see if your video card will handle it.  If not, changing video
cards
> to a higher end card will usually result in obtaining a DVD player
software
> package with the card.

> At 08:58 PM 07/07/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >hi there listers, well this is prob a stupid q? but i had a dvd rom gave
> to me its a hitachi,gd2000 is it compatibale with newer pcs or is it now
> just a cd player how can i find a decoder for this dvd if it is
> possiable,and thank ahead of time for any help given and keep up the good
> work !!!!
> >jerry the fatboy crider

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