[NTLUG:Discuss] Creative Dxr3 DVD decoder card

[brad angelcyk]

The DXR3 came bundled with Creative DVD drives (mine was a 2x drive). 
It allowed for hardware playback, so that my AMD 350 could play movies
without a problem (and it worked, for the most part).  I tended to use
the svideo out on the card more than the actual vga loopback and the
card died quickly (3-4 months).


On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:55:23 -0600, Ralph Green, Jr.
<sfreader at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Howdy,
>   I think you have it.  With modern processors and fairly recent video
> cards, these decoder cards are not really necessary.  I suppose you
> could still use one if you were concerned about keeping your CPU
> utilization as low as possible during DVD playback.  A dual P3 with a
> TNT2 card like yours does not need the decoder.
>   If you have an old P2 system where you want to watch DVDs, move the
> card there.
> Good day,
> Ralph
> 
> On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 11:20 -0600, Mark Hanna wrote:
> 
> > I thought these cards were used in machines to offload some of the DVD decoding work from the older CPU and graphics card.  Am I way off base on this?
> 
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