Via chipsets = Sucky dvd playback?

[Huma]

My friend who bought an asus p3v4x motherboard a few months back was complaining that his dvd playback got gotten all crappy with stuttering, and dropped frames. Since he lives out of town, I never got to see it myself.

Well, I just upgraded to a duron @ 850 on the MSI K7TPro2-a (via kt133) and my dvd playback is all crappy and stuttery too.

We both had perfectly fine playback before on our celeron @ 550 w/ BX board combos, and nothing else has changed. Same OS (as before, he runs 98se, I run win2k), same dvd drive, DMA is enabled. Running the 4.25 via drivers I think.

Anyone else noticed this problem?

 

[Dulanic]

My A7V which of corse is KT133 works fine.

 

[LocutusX]

LOL! My VIA board works just great when playing back DVDs... I use PowerDVD 3.0 in Windows 2000, which still doesn't have GeForce HW accel support, and usually I get 45 to 55% cpu usage while playing back DVDs. Everything's picture perfect.

BUT for video performance to be at peak performance there are a number of things you need to do, for VIA boards... i.e. the right VIA AGP driver and GART. I think the "best" right now is 4.03d.

 

[Quickfingerz]

it's probably your graphics card. Try WinDVD 2000 ver 2.3. It has the best DVD playback of ANY dvd player.

My friend's Radeon on his celeron 333 plays DVD's with no frams skips and it looks sweet. It's noticably better than my Geforce2 on a 1000 mhz system.

 

[Huma]

A few notes,

We're both using Voodoo3's now, my 3000 and his 2000. On the Celeron/BX rig, it played back fine, with no problems.

We've used both the ATI (cinemaster) player, and I'm now using Windvd 2.2 now. Both had the same issues.

it's not stuttering horribly, but it is noticable compared to my previous rig, and my set top player. The audio is fine, but I can see blurring and dropped frames happening.

 

[kami]

My p3v4x plays them fine. Both PowerDVD 3.0 and WinDVD2000 2.3

 

[Huma]

I'm wondering if it could have something to do with the dvd drives in combination with the via chipsets.

We're both using Pioneer 103s. (ide/6x/slotloaders).

 

[loogie]

?

 

[LocutusX]

I'm also using a Pioneer... no probs. Have you tried several different DVD discs, and also different drivers for your video card?

 

[JackBurton]

You have your HD and DVD drive on different EIDE controllers right?

 

[Mem]

Have you tried PowerDVD? My MSI K7T PRO with Geforce2 MX runs great with it, so it`s not the chipset as you can see from other postings by Members here.

 

[Possum]

I've had a brief encounter with really really horrible playback recently (the past week). It was my DVD drive's fault - a Pioneer 104S 10x/40x slot-loading. I've never had this problem before, so I tried to backtrack on any changes in settings I've made. This might be completely unrelated and just coincidence, but when I re-checked the "enable write caching for removable drives" box in System Properties - Performance - File System - Removable Disk, then rebooted, playback was smooth again. Again, it might've been coincidence and maybe I just needed to reboot, but give it a try.

BTW, I'm also using a P3V4X.