DVDMax on different OS

[WarDancer]

Hi, I own a g400 max and I use the DVDmax option a lot. I don't really use the other dualhead features right now and pretty much don't play games anymore.

Right now I'm running win98 but I can't stand it's stability anymore and will change to something else.

I was thinking of going to change to win2k but then I saw in the release <a href="http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/files/notes/w2k551_notes.txt">notes</a>:
High CPU usage when DVDmax is enabled

So I'm not sure I can switch now. Presently I have a celeron 300a/450 and will upgrade soon to a p3 in the 700-800Mhz range.

What I would like to know, is what are other people's experience with the DVDMax option under win2k and NT 4 (maybe even linux too). I am specially interested if any of you use it to watch divx ;-) movies with it and how this "high CPU usage" affects performance.

Also, if this high CPU usage isn't too much of a problem, can it be enabled/disabled without rebooting in win2k? (I haven't tried win2k yet).

Thank you in advance
Please feel free to post any relevant suggestions too.

[Paradox]

Yes, it can be enabled/disabled without rebooting in Win2k. For me, CPU usage was around 30-40% for a full screen DivX ;-) movie.

[This message has been edited by Paradox (edited 17 March 2001).]

[Greebe]

Para, it also would have been nice if you said what cpu your running because %ages mean nothing otherwise.

[mynx]

DVDmax doesn't run under linux. There is an open source dvd player. I read about it recently, it is the only linux dvd player and its still in its early stages. As far as I know the linux Divx player is not yet available.

[Wombat]

mynx is pretty wrong here. There are at least two DVD programs for Linux, and videolan is fully functional.
Second, You can use the libavi stuff. I watch DivX movies full-screen, with only <30% CPU usage, and no dropped frames or problems.



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Epox 8KTA3 w/ Duron 850@7.5*133 with Alpha 6035, 256MB Crucial 7E, G400MAX,SBLive!-MP3,Pioneer 10x DVD, Plextor 12/10/32A, IBM 45GB 75gxp, and a Sony 420GS. Running RH7.0 (2.4.0-final), and Win98 (when I have to).

[mynx]

I stand corrected. I should have said "only one that I know of." The site I got my information from must be out of date.