I inserted the card into a 16-bit PCMCIA slot and under Linux I got:
— Manufacturer: Toshiba Information Systems
— Product: Advanced MPEG Decoder PC Card
— 5 V / 16-bit PC Card

I’ve tried every public archive, FTP mirror, driver-site and no full driver package is available publicly.

What I need: the original Windows 95/98 driver disk (INF/VXD/DRV + MPEG playback VXD) for that card — it often came as part of the MPEG upgrade kit (PA2674U).

My topic and read last message maybe it will be helpfull

Toshiba DVD decoder card - manual needed

Looks a bit similar to the other NoteWorthy Toshiba MPEG PCMCIA card referenced here: Re: PCMCIA Graphics and Video decoding cards

According to this Dynabook article (ZV Card on Toshiba Notebooks) you need Toshiba CardWorks.

CardWorks I found on Archive.org here

Attaching the disk image here for easier access.

vetz wrote on 2025-12-09, 17:43:

Looks a bit similar to the other NoteWorthy Toshiba MPEG PCMCIA card referenced here: Re: PCMCIA Graphics and Video decoding car […]
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Looks a bit similar to the other NoteWorthy Toshiba MPEG PCMCIA card referenced here: Re: PCMCIA Graphics and Video decoding cards

According to this Dynabook article (ZV Card on Toshiba Notebooks) you need Toshiba CardWorks.

CardWorks I found on Archive.org here

Attaching the disk image here for easier access.

Will toshiba cardworks contain the drivers for the card?

christoff5221234 wrote on 2025-12-09, 18:01:

vetz wrote on 2025-12-09, 17:43:

Looks a bit similar to the other NoteWorthy Toshiba MPEG PCMCIA card referenced here: Re: PCMCIA Graphics and Video decoding car […]
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Looks a bit similar to the other NoteWorthy Toshiba MPEG PCMCIA card referenced here: Re: PCMCIA Graphics and Video decoding cards

According to this Dynabook article (ZV Card on Toshiba Notebooks) you need Toshiba CardWorks.

CardWorks I found on Archive.org here

Attaching the disk image here for easier access.

Will toshiba cardworks contain the drivers for the card?

Sorry, after checking again it doesn't appear so. I've fixed the Dynabook link.

I think these drivers might work:
https://www.video-drivers.com/drivers/45/45818.htm
(see attached d45818.zip)

You could also give the RealMagic MPEG Explorer drivers a go:
https://web.archive.org/web/20010613031816/ht … oad/rel0326.zip

Readme.txt file for REALmagic Explorer PCMCIA ==================================================================== […]
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Readme.txt file for REALmagic Explorer PCMCIA
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These drivers support supports all ZV Video Controllers in both Windows
3.X and Windows95 (retail and oem versions).

https://web.archive.org/web/20010616070819/ht … orer/readme.txt

Sadly ive tried the drivers and they havent worked. Video for Windows says no mpeg decoder found. Looking at the Toshiba info i need some media express floppy disk?

Did you follow the instructions on the video-driver.com page?

Kingmax Toshiba/Noteworthy NWZVMPEG1 Driver. This is the driver for the Kingmaz ZV PCMCIA card but it works with the Noteworthy/Toshiba card in Windows 98 and Toshiba does not provide a driver! Download the .zip file onto you desktop and doubleclick to Unzip or extract the files into a C drive directory you have created and named "ZV"..you may need winzip or pkunzip. Insert the pc card in the slot and Windows recognizes it..pick the option to specify location of the driver..select device from a list..select the device category "sound, video and game controllers"..direct the program to C \ZV, where you unzipped the drivers..it will install as "scenic wonder" and beep for successful pc card initialization. Now, go to C \ZV and run the "setup" program to install the supporting MPEG playback software. Hope this works for you..I got it to work in a Thinkpad 770E

Okay thank you yes the drivers are installed and the device is working properly but video for windows is still claiming that no mpeg decoder is detected, the only software installed with scenic is a cd player thingy not an actual mpeg player (im guessing its a video cd player)

its installed and ive got video playback but it looks terrible, theres lines all over and trying to solve it now with chatgpt, apparently it could be something to do with my video drivers.

christoff5221234 wrote on 2025-12-09, 20:31:

its installed and ive got video playback but it looks terrible, theres lines all over and trying to solve it now with chatgpt, apparently it could be something to do with my video drivers.

Maybe its interlaced scanlines?
Pls upload photo or link for video playback

turns out its never been using the card its just been software decoding still, i am at a loss as to what is going on.

christoff5221234 wrote on 2025-12-09, 22:20:

turns out its never been using the card its just been software decoding still, i am at a loss as to what is going on.

What driver do u install - Kingmax/Toshiba or Realmagic?
What player do u use? Usually hardware decoders works with their own (proprietary) players but not with universal Windows players.

apparently i need some sort of player for scenic wonder cards, as thats the only way it will talk to the card. If anybody has any disk images or zip files or links they wish to share please do so 😀

Babasha wrote on 2025-12-09, 22:48:

christoff5221234 wrote on 2025-12-09, 22:20:

turns out its never been using the card its just been software decoding still, i am at a loss as to what is going on.

What driver do u install - Kingmax/Toshiba or Realmagic?
What player do u use? Usually hardware decoders works with their own (proprietary) players but not with universal Windows players.

I installed the Kingmax/Scenic Wonder driver. it seems to work, but only in the sense that it is installed. Its only the driver disk so theres no proprietary player on it just some generic vcd player that was slow as hell playing from daemon tools.

christoff5221234 wrote on 2025-12-09, 22:56:

apparently i need some sort of player for scenic wonder cards, as thats the only way it will talk to the card. If anybody has any disk images or zip files or links they wish to share please do so 😀

Ha! but there is setup.exe and player inside
d45818.zip driver archive. Do u install them after driver .inf installation?

And there is curious Readme inside Realmagic driver archive. About zv port drivers from Microsoft. As i understand zv port technology more compatible with Win95 and less compatible with Win95OSR2 or Win98.

Babasha wrote on 2025-12-09, 23:03:

christoff5221234 wrote on 2025-12-09, 22:56:

apparently i need some sort of player for scenic wonder cards, as thats the only way it will talk to the card. If anybody has any disk images or zip files or links they wish to share please do so 😀

Ha! but there is setup.exe and player inside
d45818.zip driver archive. Do u install them after driver .inf installation?

Yes I understand what you mean, but that is a generic player that only plays vcds. Maybe it is a matter of it being incompatible with win98, maybe i need to downgrade, I will have to research it. Maybe it is more likely to work with 3.11?

As i read about zv ports on mid'90 notebooks sometimes they shoud be enabled in BIOS or with additional utilities... https://www.roda-computer.com.ua/fileadmin/do … 586%26RP586.pdf

Anyway on your place i install Win95 and try to install and compare KingMax/Toshiba and Realmagic drivers with fresh install of Win95.

https://web.archive.org/web/20010618213013/ht … gc/explorer.htm

find info here

PCMCIA Graphics and Video decoding cards

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