Creative DXR3 + other player?

I was finally able to get my DXR3 to work using creative's beta drivers, but while the application works it's pretty crappy (video must have a border, can't make it always on top, etc. ) for watching movies in non-full screen.

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I was finally able to get my DXR3 to work using creative's beta drivers, but while the application works it's pretty crappy (video must have a border, can't make it always on top, etc.) for watching movies in non-full screen. Are there any other dvd players that can use the DXR3? I installed PowerDVD to see if that could use the hardware, but if it can I can't get it to. Any suggestions?
-Mike

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I ahvent been able to find any. Im talking to intervideo now. I actually cough... bought... (honest) their new windvd software that is supposedly 5.1 compatible. So... since I bought it I'm hoping their support kicks ass. The creative one ( see previous post) crashes my computer. Sucks. Win DVD 2000 looks AMAZING. But who wants prologic. I didnt buy klipsch speakers to hear movies in STUNNING prologic
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I actually fixed the two problems I was having . It was all jittery, and I couldn't get it to be on top, but I found options for both in the configurations.

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The actual quality of the Pc-Encore blows. THe video isnt sharp at all. In my opinion at least. F'in beta crap <kicks dirt> damnit.... <grumble>
 
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You know, I'm only running a crappy PII 333Mhz (but with 192Mb RAM), a Creative 6x DVD and Encore Dxr3 decoder card, and my movies play very well in Win2K. Nothing jittery, full-screen or partial screen, no crashing, sharp image, etc.
 
I'm using the Creative beta drivers + the registry hack someone on this board posted.
 
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It doesn't matter what your system specs are (within reason) for a hardware dvd decoder, as the card is doing all of the work.

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Hey mike3411, could you please tell me how you fixed the choppy video with the WinDVD 3.0. I downloaded the trial verson and it is pretty crappy, but it found the 5.1 setup. Thanks.
 
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When did I say I used WinDVD?

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wanna know something cool, just.... install the hollywood drivers on the
dxr3, then install the hollywood software, and bang it works great
 
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Works fine for some, didn't work for me. Everything appears to work differently on different people's computers, the H+ drivers/software didn't work on mine, but the Creative beta stuff works great.

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Quote:Originally posted by mike3411:
When did I say I used WinDVD?

Sorry, I ment to say powerDVD, my bad, I was thinking of other DVD players in my head and I typed windvd. ID10T error here. So how did you fix it?

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I never had any problems with Power DVD, the only "problem" was that it decodes the DVD via software, not taking advantage of my hardware decoder card.

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Quote:Originally posted by mike3411:
I installed PowerDVD to see if that could use the hardware, but if it can I can't get it to. Any suggestions?
-Mike

That is the problem I'm talking about. How did you fix it? Thanks

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I didn't. PowerDVD is a software dvd decoder, and as I explored it more I realized there IS no way to have it use a hardware dvd card, as that's not what it's for. The problems I did fix were with Creative's player, when I found options to get it to stop being squiggly and have it always on top.