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Old March 21, 2008, 07:07 PM
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Hi,

I have a quick question I have a HTPC and I am currently using WinDVD7 to play my DVD's. But it seems that the video quality is inferior to my standalone DVD player. Would the DVD decoder software cause this ?

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Old March 21, 2008, 07:18 PM
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You could give PowerDVD a shot. WinDVD has since been bought by Corel and v9 of it is out. Could just be that your running such an old version that it can't fully utilize the video card.
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Old March 21, 2008, 08:29 PM
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Old March 22, 2008, 05:49 AM
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Thanks ! I will give that a shot and see what happens.
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i know it costs some money but also consider taking a look at nvidia pure video. i use the bronze package.
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use VLC
Agreed. VLC + appropriate codecs FTW.
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