Yeah, the video card could be holding you back. I would try using PowerDVD, and disable ALL enhancements.

BTW, you'll never get DVD playback with ffdshow working smoothly on that slow of a processor.

Greg

----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Weeden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "hwg" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 7:20 PM
Subject: [H] PC DVD Playback Issues



I recently got Zoomplayer running with ffdshow on my HTPC for DVD
playback, according to this article
http://htpcnews.com/main.php?id=ffdshowdvd_1  The main reason is to be
able to do upscaling, but I can also use Zoomplayer to play avi files
and a bunch of other things.

The issue is that even with no ffdshow enhancements the machine can't
playback a DVD smoothly.  It is under 100% CPU load the entire time
and has noticeably jerky playback.  IMHO the machine stats should be
more than enough to play a simply DVD:
Athlon 1.4 GhZ Tbird
nForce 2 mobo
500Mb 333Mhz DDR
Rage 128 Pro video card
Pioneer DVR-108

Am I wrong in thinking that these specs should be able to handle DVD
playback smoothly?  Or is that video card severely lacking?

--
Brian






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