I have a DVD-ROM drive on both a 400mhz k6-2 and an Athlon 650, neither use
hardware decoding and with PowerDVD Player software they both play
perfectly.
HTH
Chris Hayes
----- Original Message -----
From: Ira Wallin <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 3:17 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] DVDs, decoding and movies
> Witha 733mhz PC, should I be concerned whether the DVD comes with hardware
decoding or software decoding. I had heard that on slower PCs (under
550mhz), software decoding was no good...you'd get a lot of skips.
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