From: Michael Geary (Mike_at_Geary.com)
Date: Fri Dec 08 2000 - 02:45:36 EST
> From: Michael Geary [mailto:Mike_at_Geary.com]
> I had a PII-400 TP600E for a while, and I didn't find its DVD playback
> to be satisfactory. As I recall, it dropped frames quite often. It
> would probably be fine with a Margi card, but I didn't try it.
> From: Paul Khoury [mailto:pkhoury_at_loop.com]
> Did you have anything running in the background? My AMD
> K62-400 desktop skips on DVD also, but I believe this is due
> to problems with the drive itself (as it does it around certain
> positions on all discs).
Nothing running in the background other than the standard Win2000 system
services.
> And lastly (for this email, at least), does DVD work in Windows
> 2000? I'd really rather not use Windows 98. I probably reboot
> my Win98 box once every 2-4 days, vs my Win2K box having
> been on for nearly two weeks.
Yes, DVD playback works in Windows 2000. That's what I was running on the
600E. It works very well on the A20p with software decoding.
I bought a Margi card a couple of months ago, but I didn't install it
because at the time their drivers didn't support internal audio for Windows
2000. You had to plug an audio cable into the Margi card itself. I just
checked www.margi.com and it looks like they have fixed that. So I'm going
to put the Margi card in my wife's PII-266 TP600 which is running Win2000
and see how it works out there.
About the only time we run Windows 98 around here is for software
compatibility testing, and then it's usually inside a virtual machine under
VMware (www.vmware.com). That way it hardly matters if it crashes--it
doesn't affect the host Win2000 system at all. <g>
-Mike
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