G200 DVD vs G400 DVD

[orangejulius]

Any difference in DVD playback between the G200 and G400?

Running a Matrox G200 on a P2-266 / 256MB RAM (Cinemaster 99) and it's absolutely smooth -- no glitches, skips, nothing. Handles dozens of DVDs from Matrix to Das Boot.

[Fat Tone]

Then you are doing very well. When I had a G200 on my (then) k6-2-400 I had to resort to a hardware accelerator as all movies were jerky. Performance with a G400 (h/w accelerator sold with G200) was better, but I needed to change to a k6-2-450 before things became silky smooth.

Tony.

[mynx]

I had nearly the same results as tony. I do like the G400's picture better.

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Matrox G400 32mb DH, K6-2/450, Epox MVP3G-M, 128 mb PC 100, WD 8.4gb, Pio 32x CDROM, LS-120, Adaptec 2940U2W, Yamaha CDRW4416, Pio DVD-303, Diamond S90, 3COM 3c509, HP 712c, HP 6200

[Kruzin]

I was very pleased with my G200 for DVD, with PowerDVD software. Of course, that was the only thing that I could do though. Any other use of the PC would chunk the DVD playback.

Now, with the G400, I can play my DVD on my TV, which I couldn't do with my G200, and do other stuff (nothing too intense of course) on my main monitor without trashing the playback...and the picture, while playing on the monitor, is noticably better than the G200 too...