Page 1 of Does the Daewoo DHC2200 use software decoding???

I have noticed that the playback from my DAEWOO DHC200 resembles that of watching a DVD via PowerDVD (Software Decoder) on my PC. I`m noticing artifacts in the background which I only see when using powerDVD, when I use the DXR 3 (hardware decoder) these artifacts do not appear.

Are all cheap players using software decoding instead of hardware???

When I enable digital output on the daewoo diagonal lines appear across the front of my TV.

I have it in RGB mode as default and have now disabled digital out, when I do get the right audio equipment for DD5.1 will these lines reappear???

TIA

I think you might be getting slightly confused here. The term `software decoding` applies to PCs playing DVDs running a program as opposed to having a dedicated decoder. Since the PC has other things to do, like run the operating system, performance can suffer - usually frame rate. Clearly a DVD player is dedicated to playing DVDs - it`s "software" is stored permanently on a ROM chip, and the DVD processor is dedicated to movie playback. The quality of these decoding chips varies widely.

Just because a PC is using "software" decoding doesn`t necessarily mean the quality will be poor. This will all depend on the sotware used and the speed of the PC.

I`m not sure why the picture is corrupted when enabling DD5.1. May be worth trying better quality cables that have improved screening.

Karl.

I was only using the term software decoding to try and give an idea of the picture I am receiving from the Daewoo.

The Daewoo output is no where near as good as my PC using my DXR 3 outputting to my TV.

Here`s my setup:

QDI ADVANCE 5/133E Bios V1.1SLC Mar 10 2000
128MB PC-100 Synchronous SDRAM CAS-2
PIII 700E
Guillemont 3D Prophet 32MB AGP
Sound Blaster Live Value
PlexWriter 12/10/32A
18.2gb Maxtor Diamond 36 UDMA 66
Creative DXR3 + 6 x DVD-ROM
CTX VL950ST 19" Monitor

Tried the S-Video or RGB outputs? I think they are much better than the composite for this blocking for some reason.

I`ve already got my refund the quality of picture was beyond belief, I had already tried the S-video and rgb they made no difference how this could pass as a DVD player is beyond me I`ve seen better Div-X movies.

Now go get that yelo:P



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why doesn`t "ironduke" keep his smug crap to himself and leave the forum for people who require there hardware problems solving this isn`t irq.