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What is the best DVD Decoder card?

I use the DXR3 from Creative.

It is basically a Hollywood card. I even use the Hollywood drivers in Windows 2000/XP.
 
the Hollywood+ is no longer supported fully. because Sigma Designs has a new card called the XCard that is to replace it.

Check that one out. Also I've tried the hollywood in Xp and it BSODs me ALOT! The Xcard didn't
 
Personally I wouldn't bother with a specialised DVD card when I can get a multipurpose video card in the form of a Radeon or a GeForce that plays DVDs just fine and does a lot of other things too.
 


<< Personally I wouldn't bother with a specialised DVD card when I can get a multipurpose video card in the form of a Radeon or a GeForce that plays DVDs just fine and does a lot of other things too. >>



But does it do the decoding using hardware on the graphics card or software? I thought the advantage to getting a hardware decoder was that it does the decoding so the software/processor do not have to.
 
Newer video cards do SOME of the hardware DVD decoding stuff, but not all of it. The Hollywood+ does ALL of it, I can play DVDs on a Pentium 200 with 32mb RAM and a Hollywood+, 10% CPU usage. Try that with a P200 and a Radeon card...
 
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