anyone know if v3 3000 agp supports has hardware dvd support?

[falconx88]

thanks

 

[kmmatney]

I'm pretty usre that it does not (or at least the hardware DVD support is minimal).

 

[BFG10K]

It's very minimal (one kind of operation IIRC) but the rest is done by the CPU. It's nowhere near as good as ATi or nVidia.

 

[dfloyd]

Does it need it? On my 333 celeron my v3 3k ran just as smooth as my main system and Radeon.

 

[BFG10K]

If you're multitasking it helps because it keeps your CPU usage down.

Other than that you'll usually have higher image quality from video cards with true DVD accelation.

 

[zsouthboy]

The V3 only has support for Motion Compensation, a small part of the MPEG-2 decoding process. I have found a DVD player that will use it, it's called PowerDVD.

zs

 

[Auric]

It doesn't.

 

[DimZiE]

you can use powerDVD from cyberlink.although the pic quality might not look as good as other cards w/ hardware DVD support

 

[Auric]

Actually, it is not the lack of hardware DVD which results in poor quality but poor video (motion picture playback) support in general, particularly scaling. Matrox G series for instance is not as bad. Other old chips like ATI's Rage and S3's Savage series are also superior with or without hardware MC enabled. Heck, even the Geforce is better. Alas, Voodoo was just not designed with general video use in mind (either that or 3dfx simply did not have the know how).