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

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
-Super

------------------
System Specs:
MSI 694D Pro-A Mobo
Dual Gighz pentium III's
320 meg pc 133 sdram
30 Gig Maxtor Ata-100
Geforce 2 GTS
DVD w/ Decoder Card
Sblive etc etc...

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.

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>

------------------
System Specs:
MSI 694D Pro-A Mobo
Dual Gighz pentium III's
320 meg pc 133 sdram
30 Gig Maxtor Ata-100
Geforce 2 GTS
DVD w/ Decoder Card
Sblive etc etc...

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.

------------------
"Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat. You talk to it but you're never really sure it hears you, much less comprehends what you say." -DeadCats, 1999

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.

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.

------------------
"I've got thirteen channels of $hit on the T.V. to choose from." - Pink Floyd

When did I say I used WinDVD?

wanna know something cool, just.... install the hollywood drivers on the
dxr3, then install the hollywood software, and bang it works great

------------------
System Specs:
MSI 694D Pro-A Mobo
Dual Gighz pentium III's
320 meg pc 133 sdram
30 Gig Maxtor Ata-100
Geforce 2 GTS
DVD w/ Decoder Card
Sblive etc etc...

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.

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?

------------------
"I've got thirteen channels of $hit on the T.V. to choose from." - Pink Floyd

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.

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

------------------
"I've got thirteen channels of $hit on the T.V. to choose from." - Pink Floyd

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.