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    Mill II or Mystique?

    My problem is the following. My father has an older PC (P3-700Mhz) running winXP. He has some no name brand (as near as I can tell) video card in it. He can not watch/view any dvd's with it for some unknown reason. I don't have much time to diagnose the problem, so I am willing to swap video cards with him. I have at my disposal 2 PCI Matrox cards. One is a Millenium II 4MB card and the other is a Mystique 4MB card. Which of these two cards would be best suited to allow him to watch DVD's? Sadly both these cards are currently in some of my older "tinkering" machines which are running on Pentium I hardware, so I can't try them with DVD's to see if they even work.

    Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
    Go Bunny GO!


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  • #2
    I think they have too little memory for hardware overlay, I think you want G200/G400 class card.

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    • #3
      So any 4MB video card I may have is not going to be enough for him to watch DVD's? If I have 8MB or more then it should be enough?
      Go Bunny GO!


      Titan:
      MSI NEO2-FISR | Intel P4-3.0C | 1024MB Corsair TWINX1024 3200LLPT RAM | ATI AIW 9700 Pro | Dell P780 @ 1024x768x32 | Turtle Beach Santa Cruz | Sony DRU-500A DVD-R/-RW/+R/+RW | WDC 100GB [C:] | WDC 100GB [D:] | Logitech MX-700

      Mini:
      Shuttle SB51G XPC | Intel P4 2.4Ghz | Matrox G400MAX | 512 MB Crucial DDR333 RAM | CD-RW/DVD-ROM | Seagate 80GB [C:] | Logitech Cordless Elite Duo

      Server:
      Abit BE6-II | Intel PIII 450Mhz | Matrox Millennium II PCI | 256 MB Crucial PC133 RAM | WDC 6GB [C:] | WDC 200GB [E:] | WDC 160GB [F:] | WDC 250GB [G:]

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      • #4
        I seem to remember that the Mystique used to advertise something about x/y scaling for full sceen video playback and that they millenium didn't have quite the same feature. That was a long time ago though... IIRC, the Millenium had a faster core.
        P.S. You've been Spanked!

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        • #5
          The Mystique sound better and if that does not work, turn off and hardware acceleration features for the DVD software. It could be the software is looking for something that is not there.

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