From: William Armstrong (warmstrong_at_waldinc.com)
Date: Wed Jan 03 2001 - 17:21:49 EST
Others may disagree, but I'm pretty sure you need the hardware decoder for
W2k. I believe this applies to all flavors of 770. My own experience only
covers the 770Z, on which I installed W2k on some time ago. My recollection
is that if you did a clean install of W2k you lost the functionality of the
DVD for playback of DVD movies unless you had the Enhanced Video Adapter
(EVA). If you did an upgrade install from either Win'98 or NT you may be
able to use the software DVD encoder, but I'm not sure. Others here may
know.
I never did understand why IBM couldn't provide the software to allow DVD
playback with W2k. Just today I have purchased the EVA card for my 770Z,
even though my wife now uses this machine as I have moved on to an A21p. The
EVA is pretty hard to find.
Good luck, Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Hatton [mailto:hatton64_at_potsdam.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 10:50 AM
To: thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu
Subject: DVD Win 2000 770
I am trying to get DVD playback on a 770 running win2000 with no hardware
decoder. I am having problems getting the mediamatics dvd player to
install and the only info I have found on it is to install it in win NT and
run the upgrade to win2000 then apply the fixpack. win2000 is allready
installed and I don't want to have to wipe the drive to go back to NT. any
suggestions?
Jeff Hatton
Hatton64_at_potsdam.edu
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