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post #1 of 18
5/4/05 at 8:44pm
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How come DVD movies does not look good on the XPS2? It look so grainy and I had to make the window smaller to make it less grainy.

Any solution to this?

Is it because of the "sparkles" effects of the screen?
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post #2 of 18
5/4/05 at 8:54pm
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Originally Posted by Vancomycin
How come DVD movies does not look good on the XPS2? It look so grainy and I had to make the window smaller to make it less grainy.

Any solution to this?

Is it because of the "sparkles" effects of the screen?
I tried to play one movie as well an older movie called "heat", I have yet to try another one but like you said it was a pretty horrible picture quality.
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post #3 of 18
5/4/05 at 9:00pm
It is the DVD decoder you are you using on your system. DVD's are not playing on your laptop like they are on your home DVD player, your computer has to read the data, process it and then display it on your screen. You can try downloading the trial for PureVideo DVD decoder from NVidia's site but I have not noticed any real difference.
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post #4 of 18
5/4/05 at 9:01pm
What program are you using for playback?
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post #5 of 18
5/4/05 at 9:04pm
Try the k-lite codec pack.
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post #6 of 18
5/4/05 at 9:04pm
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Originally Posted by bdw8
What program are you using for playback?
The built in Dell Media experiance thing...
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post #7 of 18
5/4/05 at 9:06pm
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Originally Posted by IRobertus
It is the DVD decoder you are you using on your system. DVD's are not playing on your laptop like they are on your home DVD player, your computer has to read the data, process it and then display it on your screen. You can try downloading the trial for PureVideo DVD decoder from NVidia's site but I have not noticed any real difference.
Is that not what happens with a home DVD player?
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post #8 of 18
5/4/05 at 9:09pm
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Originally Posted by jdbaker82
The built in Dell Media experiance thing...
Ah, that was one of the first things I deleted. I never played a DVD in there so I can't comment.

Have you tried playing it back through WMP or anything else?
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post #9 of 18
5/4/05 at 9:14pm
NVDVD 2.0 (by Nvidia)
Works Great! for me.

U.N.inspector
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post #10 of 18
5/4/05 at 9:28pm
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Originally Posted by bdw8
Ah, that was one of the first things I deleted. I never played a DVD in there so I can't comment.

Have you tried playing it back through WMP or anything else?
Nope I will find something different like the NVIDIA 2.0 or something.
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post #11 of 18
5/4/05 at 10:16pm
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Originally Posted by bdw8
What program are you using for playback?
I was using WinDVD 6
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post #12 of 18
5/4/05 at 10:46pm
Nvidia NDVD is supposedly the best because of the Purevideo feature
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post #13 of 18
5/5/05 at 2:59am
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Originally Posted by jdbaker82
I tried to play one movie as well an older movie called "heat", I have yet to try another one but like you said it was a pretty horrible picture quality.
The reason it looks grainy is because the resolution of your XPS2 is 1920x1200, while the most common resolution for DVDs is 720x480, so the picture is stretched. The NVIDIA DVD Decoder will help because it employs a sort of antialiasing on MPEG, but the only real solution is resizing the DVD player, playing it on your TV....or wait for high definition 'Blue-Laser DVD'.
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post #14 of 18
5/5/05 at 10:58am
And POW - Reaver nails it.
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post #15 of 18
5/5/05 at 12:03pm
So is this nvidia player free, if not, what is a good free one?
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post #16 of 18
5/5/05 at 4:37pm
NVDVD 2.0
Is not free, but PM me. I can help you out.

U.N.inspector
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post #17 of 18
5/5/05 at 5:15pm
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Originally Posted by U.N.inspector
NVDVD 2.0
Is not free, but PM me. I can help you out.

U.N.inspector
UN Inspector, you gotta PM for help setting it up...
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post #18 of 18
5/5/05 at 5:18pm
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Originally Posted by U.N.inspector
NVDVD 2.0
Is not free, but PM me. I can help you out.

U.N.inspector

Okay Yall......
Due to the Flood of PM's......

Please message me on AIM.
Name = SpdrmnIOA

U.N.inspector
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