RANT: DVD decoders

[ratdude747]

Re: RANT: DVD decoders

would nero 9 ultra have a decoder? the drive came with that.

maybe it did have a decoder then... I heard nero burning software was trash and thus I never installed it. Perhaps the disc that came with the drive had a decoder after all?

[NxB]

Re: RANT: DVD decoders

Nero 9 ultra should have it... but it installs tons of crapware. It USED to be very good. I can vouch for K-Lite and Media Player classic. Use it for lots of stuff besides mpeg2. I've never had to use windows media player.

Strangely, it didn't run any better on a 1.2GHZ processor than it did on a 333MHz CPU.

2D acceleration also factors into this. If you had a crappy video card in those boxes that could have caused problems.

You have to choose the appropriate renderer in MPC too. I.E Overlay/DirectX/EVR. On top of that usually something else does the actual decoding for MPC, in my case its FFDshow.

[Perineum]

Re: RANT: DVD decoders

k-lite also seemed to have a somewhat high failure rate... a lot of these free codec bundles seem dodgy...

K-Lite works. General incompetence of the users installing it is effecting the "failure rate", I bet. Every new machine I build goes out the door with this codec pack as well.

I've used K-Lite for years and never had any problem. ACE Mega Codecs pack was the buggy one. It does occasionally need some configuration on certain systems but it works most of the time. Or just use VLC.

Agree. Never any issue with K-Lite for many years.

VLC and Media Player Classic also work well.

[pentium]

Re: RANT: DVD decoders

I found a copy of Power DVD years ago in a pile of stuff. I stuill use it to this day to play DVD's.