older DVD drive makes screen blurry

[Jingoh]

I'm putting together two systems for my kids. I had an older CreativeLabs 5x Dxr2 Encore
DVD, never used, laying around. I figured I'd install that on one of the systems. The drive,
hooked up by itself, works find and everything's hunky dory. When I install the DVD decoder
card to make it work as a DVD drive, the video is terrible! I'm getting visible horizontal bands
and the whole desktop has a slight blur. Adjusting brightness/contrast doesn't work. I've
tried adjusting the refresh rate from optimal (windows98 taking care of that, I guess) to 85 (hz?)
and that makes it a bit better, but nowhere near as clear as I get just having that drive as CD
drive. My only guess is that the monitor and/or the video card doesn't like the loop back thru
the DVD decoder card. (Video card is a new Geforce2 GTS-V 32MB). Is there something
I'm overlooking, or that I can do to rectify this? I'm seriously thinking of just forgetting about
using this DVD for anything but a CD drive and forget about DVD aspect.

 

[nocash]

depending on your cpu speed, I would just ditch the decoder card. It seems to be the problem, If your cpu is 400 mhz or greater then you could use software dvd decoding, like powerdvd or windvd. The blurry picture would have nothing to do with the drive itself.

 

[zsouthboy]

Yeah, what nocash said.

The Dxr board is blurring your image, not the dvd drive itself.

It sounds like a defective board(rf filters wrong?), so I don't know.

Hmmmmm.....

zs

 

[zsouthboy]

Ohhh.... wait.... had another thought.


While that video is so horrible and stuff, try wiggling the cord that goes from the video card to the dxr board. If it makes it better or worse, then it's most likely the cord itself shorting out, causing bad image quality.

zs