Good DVD drive for G400 software decoding?

[Elie]

I have the Toshiba M1202 3rd generation DVD player and it works great.

The Pioneer is also a great DVD player, I guess it all comes down to how much you want to pay for one.

Regards,
Elie

[mynx]

I'm using the pioneer 6x scsi and am very pleased. Power dvd runs fine. I have a problem with glicthing on some movies, but I only have a K6-2/350.
Waiting for the K6-3/500 to come down some in price.

[OrangeJulius]

Jihad,

The Pioneer 10X drive should be out by Holiday 1999. I'm waiting for it.

Is by any chance your handle related to a Mentallo & The Fixer offshoot? If not, nevermind..

[pnkflyd51]

agallag writes:

> The digital output would be used for
> plugging into a soundcard with digital
> input. It's S/PDIF I believe.


So is the S/PDIF on DVD drives capable of passing the audio from DVD movies out to the the sound card, or is this only good for passing CD Audio out?

Thanks.

[djroberts]

I guess all this is subject to opinion. I noticed what one person feels is good looking and smooth is sometimes not the same for another. Anyway, I wasn't satified with the 1202 Toshiba, and the Pioneer (Although the best drive) lacks a digital out. I do HIGHLY recommend Panasonic's 5X for the almost Pioneer speed, the digital output and the DVD-R compatibility. Max PC has a pretty good review of all these drives...


- DJ

[agallag]

pnkflyd51, that's where I'm confused too. I would guess that it's only for CD-Audio, as I think DVD audio is encoded differently, and comes directly through the data stream. I'm not sure though. Could someone confirm this?



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Andrew Gallagher - andrew@agallagher.com
Asus P2B-S, PII-350, 64MB PC100, MillG200 8MB (Anxiously awaiting my G400MAX), SBLive! Retail, Win98SE

[mynx]

The dvd audio is encoded into the data stream. It is compresssed to allow for multiple languadges.

[Maniac]

To get true AC-3 audio you will need a receiver that can decode this format. Plus a full set of surround speakers...