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Watching DVD movies in SGA

  • 24-04-2005 8:47pm
    #1
    Newbie1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭


    I just purchased a Dell Latitude D600 with SGA display and am unable to play
    movies. After my fourth call to Dell the latest "advice" is that you need SXGA display to play movies. My SGA will not allow me to have a setting beyond
    1024x768.

    The SXGA was not even an option for us on purchase time and a return would be a major hassle. The software they bundled with it is called "InterActual
    Player 2.0".

    Would you know ANY way to play movies under my configuration? Any one else, or board, I could post this to? Any advice would be MUCH appreciated.


Comments

  • #2
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,184 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Just use better player software. VLC (www.videolan.org) can most certainly play movies at 1024x768, and even 800x600...


  • #3
    Stark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,084 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    Considering DVDs themselves have a resolution of only 720x576, there should be no reason why 1024x768 would not be enough.


  • #4
    Newbie1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭Newbie1


    Thanks, VLC works like a charm.


  • #5
    sceptre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    Newbie1 wrote:
    movies. After my fourth call to Dell the latest "advice" is that you need SXGA display to play movies.
    Well now here's the funny thing. SXGA as you know is 1280*1024. I've an old Dell Inspiron 7500 that is XGA (1024*768) (maybe it goes higher, haven't been near the settings since the last reinstall) and it plays DVDs just fine. As does my PC monitor, also set to 1024*768. As Stark said, DVDs have a resolution of 720*576. Which is why the minimum monitor for playing DVDs is 800*600 or SVGA (was once often displayed on the DVD cases).

    So total bollocks on your fourth tech support call, which wouldn't fill me with confidence in the guy taking the calls.

    Interactual player is rather crappy and outdated (and useless, did I mention that it was useless?). Used to (may still do) come for free on DVDs like the Matrix and Shrek. I would half expect there's some setting in Interactual itself that needs to be changed but I think you're better off continuing to use almost anything else that works (and VLC will do well for that).

    No points for the phone tech guy(s) but MYOB gave you a good solution.


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