ShaidarHaran
Member
Ok, I know this isn't fully-dependant on the video card but not sure where else to post this and get a response.
So here's the situation: I have a stand-alone DVD player (Samsung 611) and it's decent, great image quality and distortion is a rarity however, it does skip occasionally on fast-moving scenes and when loading chapters. Is this normal for non-progressive scan players? I also have a 2x DVD drive in my comp P3 800(Slot1 100fsb retail hsf), 384mb pc100 ram(256mb CL2, 128mb CL3), V3 3000 AGP(166core/166mem, latest X3dfx drivers) using WinDVD and I have yet to see any distortion with this setup but again, slight skipping is visible with my comp. With the stand-alone player the skipping seems much longer than on the comp but I notice the comp skips more often. Again, in comparison the skipping on the comp lasts for much shorter periods of time and is much less noticable than with the sstand-alone player. I am getting a 32mb Radeon DDR (OEM) which can overclock to Radeon 64 speeds (183core/183mem) and supposedly has dvd decoding in hardware (or at least partial decoding). Will the Radeon give me less skipping or am I limited by my older 2x dvd drive with its high seek times (I think between 180-210ms for DVDs). Would a faster DVD drive like a 12x or 16x give me skip-less DVD playback? What is the bottleneck in my system? I guess the overall question is is there any way to get perfect DVD playback without a progressive-scan player?
Thanks in advance.
So here's the situation: I have a stand-alone DVD player (Samsung 611) and it's decent, great image quality and distortion is a rarity however, it does skip occasionally on fast-moving scenes and when loading chapters. Is this normal for non-progressive scan players? I also have a 2x DVD drive in my comp P3 800(Slot1 100fsb retail hsf), 384mb pc100 ram(256mb CL2, 128mb CL3), V3 3000 AGP(166core/166mem, latest X3dfx drivers) using WinDVD and I have yet to see any distortion with this setup but again, slight skipping is visible with my comp. With the stand-alone player the skipping seems much longer than on the comp but I notice the comp skips more often. Again, in comparison the skipping on the comp lasts for much shorter periods of time and is much less noticable than with the sstand-alone player. I am getting a 32mb Radeon DDR (OEM) which can overclock to Radeon 64 speeds (183core/183mem) and supposedly has dvd decoding in hardware (or at least partial decoding). Will the Radeon give me less skipping or am I limited by my older 2x dvd drive with its high seek times (I think between 180-210ms for DVDs). Would a faster DVD drive like a 12x or 16x give me skip-less DVD playback? What is the bottleneck in my system? I guess the overall question is is there any way to get perfect DVD playback without a progressive-scan player?
Thanks in advance.
