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watch DVDs on a 600e?
Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 1:40 pm
by Legend66
hi there im investigating the possibility of adding a DVD drive to my TP600e, but it would only really be worthwhile if i could get half decent DVD playback on the thing.
specs:
XP pro SP2
366MHZ
288MB
30GB
what options are available to me? like drivers, software, hardware solutions (like a pcmcia video card or somehting???) because with DVD playback this thing would be perfect!
thanks!
Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 1:54 pm
by tfflivemb2
Yes, you can play back DVDs on the 600E. I have done so in the past. Granted, it might not run quite as smooth and a home DVD player, but it works just fine for travel.
The biggest thing that I can tell you is to make sure that you video display is set no higher than 16bit.
XP already has drivers for the DVD drive itself. You can use
K-Lite as a DVD codec and playback system.
Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 3:05 pm
by dorronto
I agree. I have watched DVD's on a 300mhz TP600 with no problem. If you should have problems you might have to get a Margi dvd pc card. With a Margi card, DVD's will run perfectly. These can be bought on Ebay. Good luck.............
Ron
Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 4:55 am
by serverbook
about time i utilise some of my bandwidth allowance
i look forward to trying this out
i had a 266 /tp600 work nicely with powerdvd xpver4.0 set to
800x600 resolution 16 bit in win me
xp wasn't as good but still acceptable
important to set the hdd to udma atleast
and dvd to mutil word dma 2 atleast
setting to ultra ata33 on the dvd will use the battery more
compromise the order.
