- Matrox DVD Player
- Posted by Daniel on February 27th, 2005
Can anyone help me please?
I have a Matrox G450 16MB dual head card (G45+MDHA16DLXB, I think). I am
looking at purchasing the Matrox TV-out cable with Matrox DVD Player.
However, I might be able to purchase just the cable itself for a
considerably cheaper price.
Do I have to use the Matrox DVD Player to take advantage of the TV-out
functionality? (I'm assuming the Matrox DVD Player is not free)
If not, can I use PowerDVD or WinDVD (I have OEM versions which came
with my DVD drive and graphics card), or is there some freeware media
player which can do the job.
Thanks.
- Posted by Digital Video Solutions on February 28th, 2005
The Matrox DVD Player is WinDVD. It doesn't matter which player you use
because they are software playback utilizing memory areas of your VGA card.
The Matrox TV-Out cable will work regardless of the DVD player you choose.
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- Posted by Rick on February 28th, 2005
"Digital Video Solutions" <video@digitalvideosolutionsNOSPAM.com> wrote in message
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For what it's worth, the G450 shipped with the infinitely superior
OEM version of Ravisent Cinemaster, not WinDVD. If your
system is borderline as far as horsepower goes (PIII-450Mhz
or slower) it would probably be worth the extra cost to pick up
Cinemaster. Otherwise use whichever player you want.
- Posted by Daniel on March 1st, 2005
Rick wrote:
- Posted by Digital Video Solutions on March 2nd, 2005
"Rick" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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There is no certain proof one is better than the other. PowerDVD works just
as good. I might have misquoted which ships with what level of Matrox VGA
card, and I certainly remember WinDVD being in a package with a G550
sometime back. I have all the above along with Sonic Cineplayer and the only
differences I have seen is some OEM versions will only playback up to 5
minutes. In order to playback more time you have to purchase the full
version.
In this case I think "far superior" is subjective and prone to personal
opinion.
- Posted by Rick on March 2nd, 2005
"Digital Video Solutions" <video@digitalvideosolutionsNOSPAM.com> wrote in message
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True. It depends where one's priorities are. More recent
players have much better configuration options, especially for
audio, but I've used all the major players and have yet to find
any that match Cinemaster's video smoothness and quality.
Cinemaster was so well written it could produce smooth video
on a PII-350 system. Try *that* with PowerDVD or WinDVD.
- Posted by Lars Wolos on March 8th, 2005
"Rick" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message news:38kfogF5nsqdgU1@individual.net...
Hi Rick
I have two PCs, one with a Matrox G550 and one with a P650, but without the cds.
Do you know where to get the OEM version of Ravisent Cinemaster and if it works
with XP?
I guess it's not on the "Matrox DVD Player" CD-ROM?
http://shopmatrox.com/usa/products/c...ID=43&Column=2
Best regards,
Lars
- Posted by Rick on March 8th, 2005
"Lars Wolos" <news@wolos.com> wrote in message news:394k8qF5uaf5bU1@individual.net...
I don't know. Probably not, because AFAIK no development has
been done with Cinemaster since Ravisent was purchased by Sonic,
even though Sonic is still selling it:
http://www.sonic.com/products/cinepl...er/default.asp
I'd steer clear of Cinemaster if you have a more recent system.
It runs great under Win2K SP3, but SP4 breaks it big time. It
also may not run properly if DivX codecs are installed. Etc.
- Posted by Lars Wolos on March 8th, 2005
"Rick" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message news:394oliF5vhqfbU1@individual.net...
I've just ordered that Matrox DVD Player and TV-Out cable above, but I guess
it includes WinDVD (maybe Cinemaster aswell).
I find the version history really confusing. There must be a more recent
version called CineMaster2000:
http://www.inmatrix.com/review/cine2000review.shtml
Quote: "CineMaster 2000 really hasn't changed much from previous versions.
Aside from its Windows 2000 support [...]"
I wonder why it's not on the Sonic website. And then there's this rather strange
URL http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/do...inemaster.html
which looks somewhat semi-legal or what?
Lars
- Posted by Rick on March 8th, 2005
"Lars Wolos" <news@wolos.com> wrote in message news:395rr1F5s43p1U1@individual.net...
Yes, and the review is accurate.
I think you'll find most of those links are dead.
As I mentioned earlier there's no reason to use Cinemaster if
your system has adequate horsepower to handle more recent
(and supported) players.
