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Some links to freeware dvd players here

Griobhta

Power DVD isn't worth $50. There are freeware DVD players available from the internet. I believe that ATI will send you a DVD player on the video driver disk for $10.

bummer!!!

JayMan

it did, but i can't find my ati cd

i got my card two years ago, and when i went to 2k, i just downloaded the latest driver from ati and burned it onto cd, so who knwos where my actual ati disk is these days...

didn't your ATI card come with the ATI DVD player?

JayMan

so it is... only five minutes of audio output, then plunk down fifty bucks for a full version. d'oh!

JayMan is right... It is part of the Trial. It says at the DL site something about 5 minutes of Audio. I remember this from a while back when I was trying to decide on either WinDVD or PowerDVD. I dl'd both trial versions to check out and one had sound cut out and the other stopped running after the same amount of time. If I remember correctly, the only dif between the two that I could see was that PowerDVD offered surround natively and WinDVD didnt... however, the surround was not part of the trialware.

It confused me the first time around... hehe. I expected it to be full trialware for 30 days... I didnt read the trialware specifications. I tried to trouble shoot for a while thinking it was my system and DVD player. THe last thing I did was go back to the site and check the trialware info.... LOL.

GoodLuck

Are you sure that is not part of the "trial"?

I used to have powerdvd xp running on win2k using just the normal output (not digital) and i had no problems at all with the full version.

JayMan

audio cuts out with powerdvd xp 4.0

i just installed my dvd drive (16x pioneer from newegg) and i downloaded the powerdvd xp (4.0) trial to play dvd's on my pc... now it plays fine, but after about five minutes, the @$%!%#^~%audio cuts out. i can get it back by stopping and restarting the movie, but that's annoying to do every five minutes.

any ideas? right now i can't hook up via digital audio, broke the connector off the cable when i was trying to get it out of my cdrom i have a feeling that trying to do this through analog is half of the problem. does anyone agree?

please help! i want to get this working properly.

ps - this is on win2k, with my p3 600, 256 mb ram, ati xpert2000 (rage 128 chipset with dvd acceleration built in) and sb live! mp3+ 5.1.