Dvd playback pumpup

[Johnlife01]

I was wondering if i could make my system fast enough to play dvd's (free preferably). Its a pII 450 with 128megs of ram, a 6 gig scsi drive, a 16x dvd drive, and an 80 gig hard drive. Thanx, i really need help on this one.

[Jarhed7276]

Everything I've read says you need at least a 500 mhz cpu to play dvd so you might overclock your cpu although I had a 600 mhz cpu and never got good playback with it (with a software decoder).
You could also get a hardware decoder for it. Creative Labs use to have one, the Dxr3, but I don't know if they still sell them. I used that with my 600 cpu and it worked great.

[phenious]

well... you need some DVD software which isnt free unless you already have it and you probably will want more RAM as you are doing a software Decode... you could probably find a MPEG2 decoder card on E-bay really cheap which will decode the movies for you and let your processor do other things.

-: phenious :-