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DVD Playback and Hardware Acceleration

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kuk

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I bought a DVD-ROM drive today and playing movies seem to enslave my Duron 1.2Ghz processor. I can't even scroll webpages that the audio/video stutters. I currently run it on a nForce 1 mobo, with integrated video. I'm looking for a new video card, and I was wondering what cards have hardware motion compensation, and if it "works as advertised". Although I'm leaning towards a Ti4200, I would consider a Radeon 8500LE/9200 if it improved DVD playback.

Any thoughts?
 
It shouldn't be more then 25% max on cpu utilization...Also are you using a scrolling mouse??? I have seen this that if you use the slider bar no stuttering but ith the scroll stuttering...I don't see it anymore with 3.24ghz but I remember it back in the 1ghz days....
 
DMA is enabled ... and I'm seeing 50-60% CPU utilization with WinDVD, and 35-45% with Windows Media Player.

I've turned off smooth scrolling in IE, and it improved the situation a bit, but it's still far from ideal.
 
Your onboard video does have Hardware Acceleration, although a separate video card will likely perform noticeaby bette(likely). Your system can play DVDs fine or surf the net fine, but doing both simultaneously is pushing it, as you have found out.
 
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