At that time I used the Dxr3 decoder card cause K6-2 and Voodoo3 could not help a lot in this and the sw players back then. Considering having a very good vga output quality and a very good CRT monitor this was the combo I liked the most cause it was always smooth just like a separate hw solution could have, the cpu usage was 10->20% and the overlay analog upscaler did a nice job if you could accept the bit of smoothness in the usual everyday usage.

computergeek92 wrote:

What is DXVA and iDCT?

Which is a better player in general, WinDVD or PowerDVD?

DXVA is DirectX Video Acceleration. It is an API that graphics drivers use to interface with a card's video acceleration features. iDCT is Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform and that is one of the most demanding parts of MPEG2 processing.

As for DVD software, you might be able to find old information in a web search. I think the comparisons mostly come down to the software's CPU load and whether it can perform deinterlacing or inverse telecine without ruining video quality.

Thanks for the replies.

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