dvd playback problems with mystique/rr

[whiprwill]

hello group... my apologies in advance if these newbie questions have been covered... didnt see them in the faq search tho...

my system is a p3 6oo running 98se... using an old matrox mystique with the rainbow runner studio... so far i have been able to work out most of the video capture issues... but here is one i am stuck on...

my computer came with a dvd player i use occasionally... since i installed the matrox mystique/rr, i cannot get any of the software dvd decoders to play back dvd... i have tried windvd & powersoft... but there seems to be a problem with the config... or the amount of memory on the card...

also... i had to uninstall my original video card in order to get the matrox to work... my original plan was to use the old card (an ati xpert 99, i think) for the monitor & just use the matrox for vid captures... but when i installed it, it said the drivers were wrong (i checked- they werent)... then when i switched the bios to recognize the pci card first, it kept crashing during booting sequence... this was only remedied by completely removing the ati card & using the matrox for the monitor...

any solutions?
or did i get a dinosaur card that wont allow dvd playback? any fixes?
and can i reinstall my ati & use that for dvd/monitor? as i originally intended?

thanx
~will s.

[paulw]

I use Power DVD 4 with limited success in Win2K. Not exactly full motion playback. I suspect that it is lack of video ram thats the problem..

[smitty]

Hi I had a similar problem until I blasted all dvd software and put Power dvd on. It now works good . I use win98se, mystique 220 and RRS
One other thing I blasted media player7 away stayed with 6.4
smitty

[Dr Mordrid]

Yup...some of the older software & drivers definitely work better with WMP 6.4.

Dr. Mordrid

[Patrick]

Hanging on to old technology

It's not 100% clear whether any of you are referring to playback on the computer monitor or using the TV out of the RRS.

I use a PCI 8Mb Mill2/RRS combination with PowerDVD XP 4.0 running Win98SE. (The AGP card is also an 8Mb Mill2.) The playback is fine on both the computer monitor and on the TV but it's not perfect. On the TV if there's a quick pan it's almost like the image gets cut in half horizontally and the upper half is shifted slightly from the lower.

[whiprwill]

thanx for the responses... i am talking about playback on the monitor... haven't hooked it up to the tv yet (no tv out, but could patch thru a vcr using the composite video out)...
how much difference is there between the matrox mystique card & the mystique 220? will the rainbow runner card connect to a 220? ( i see some very cheap on ebay)... if that upgrade will help, i might try it...
i will have to check my version of windows media player to see what i have... sounds like a good hint tho... thanx again...

[cuddles]

I have never been able to get my Myst220/RRS to output anything other than the Matrox MJPEG codec.
Have I missed something somehow.

[Patrick]

From the archives

Clem, maybe this old thread will help you out.

matrox mystique tv-out !?!?!