G400 DVD assist

[mynx]

I just installed my new G400 card yesterday. When I play a DVD my CPU use is just as high as it was before. I had Cinemaster 1.028. I removed the engine from the system folder and installed the new player. Is ther some other part to cinemaster that may be causing this?

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Matrox G400 32mb DH, K6-2/450, Epox MVP3G-M, WD 8.4gb, Pio 32x CDROM, LS-120, Adaptec 2940U2W, Yamaha CDRW4416, Pio DVD-303, Diamond S90, 3COM 3c509, HP 712c, HP 6200

[Zwisch]

What do you mean by this? You are comparing it to what? Remember that the G400 DVD is also software and not hardware... there is no decoder on the card.

[mynx]

The card has some hardware assist on it. It has posted that cpu use is lower than with software alone. It was recently posted to use about 35%. I'm still using 90%. Exactly the same as with my G200.

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Matrox G400 32mb DH, K6-2/450, Epox MVP3G-M, WD 8.4gb, Pio 32x CDROM, LS-120, Adaptec 2940U2W, Yamaha CDRW4416, Pio DVD-303, Diamond S90, 3COM 3c509, HP 712c, HP 6200

[AlteX]

35%??? Not with your CPU... Maybe with P3/Athlon-600+
G400 doesn't have anything besides hardware sub-picture blending, hardware color-space conversion and hardware scaling...
NO hardware Motion Compensation or IDCT here, unfortunately.


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... There's No Spoon!

[mynx]

I know I won't get that low. Someone had posted that they went from 90% on G200 with software to 35% with G400. They didn't mention what software DVD they were using. I am playing the movies fine, I just was wondering how the G400 lowered their cpu use. Mine stayed the same. They must have been refering to SoftDVD vs Digicore.
Thank you for the response.

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Matrox G400 32mb DH, K6-2/450, Epox MVP3G-M, WD 8.4gb, Pio 32x CDROM, LS-120, Adaptec 2940U2W, Yamaha CDRW4416, Pio DVD-303, Diamond S90, 3COM 3c509, HP 712c, HP 6200

[cirrus]

Accoring to Finnish Computer magazine called "Mikrobitti" best DVD playing performance was achieved with Matroxs own player. But the other players they used to test it were PowerDVD and XingDVD

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Arto

[This message has been edited by cirrus (edited 24 October 1999).]