I have a Radeon equipped PC running 1920x1080p
for DVD playback.
I all but gave up on getting ATI DVD player 4.1
to work and as it turns out I think my problem
was that I was running "too new" radeon drivers
which were DXVA enabled and caused problems for
the old version of the ATI player.
Now that ATI DVD player 5.0 (DXVA compliant)
is out I gave that a try and the video
worked great, but I could
not get SPDIF (DD passthrough) audio to work.
I think there is a known problem with ATI DVD
player 5.0 and SPDIF so I bailed on that too.
Now I tried Cineplayer4 software and put it
on my Radeon system. The video works great
(better than PowerDVD3) and the SPDIF audio
works as well. This is all working with the
latest 4.13.7189 Win98SE Radeon drivers that
were just released.
I know people are real touchy in the "DVD player"
wars these days, but my vote now goes for
Cineplayer4 running on a Radeon.
In my case I have a Radeon LE flashed with the
Radeon 32DDR VGA bios all running on Win98SE
with ATI 7.13.7189 drivers. [email protected]
and beautiful anamorphic DVD playback with
SPDIF passthrough to a Fortissimo 1 card.
You can buy Cineplayer4 here:
http://www.ravisentdirect.com/dvd4/cpdvd.html
I suppose when PowerDVD XP-pro and
the rumored "new sheriff"/"dark horse" DVD
players show up, I can try them to see if
there is any improvement, but I am starting
to think the picture I have now is about as
good as I will ever see from a DVD.
for DVD playback.
I all but gave up on getting ATI DVD player 4.1
to work and as it turns out I think my problem
was that I was running "too new" radeon drivers
which were DXVA enabled and caused problems for
the old version of the ATI player.
Now that ATI DVD player 5.0 (DXVA compliant)
is out I gave that a try and the video
worked great, but I could
not get SPDIF (DD passthrough) audio to work.
I think there is a known problem with ATI DVD
player 5.0 and SPDIF so I bailed on that too.
Now I tried Cineplayer4 software and put it
on my Radeon system. The video works great
(better than PowerDVD3) and the SPDIF audio
works as well. This is all working with the
latest 4.13.7189 Win98SE Radeon drivers that
were just released.
I know people are real touchy in the "DVD player"
wars these days, but my vote now goes for
Cineplayer4 running on a Radeon.
In my case I have a Radeon LE flashed with the
Radeon 32DDR VGA bios all running on Win98SE
with ATI 7.13.7189 drivers. [email protected]
and beautiful anamorphic DVD playback with
SPDIF passthrough to a Fortissimo 1 card.
You can buy Cineplayer4 here:
http://www.ravisentdirect.com/dvd4/cpdvd.html
I suppose when PowerDVD XP-pro and
the rumored "new sheriff"/"dark horse" DVD
players show up, I can try them to see if
there is any improvement, but I am starting
to think the picture I have now is about as
good as I will ever see from a DVD.