From: Bruce Markowitz (scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: Mon Dec 09 2002 - 13:26:23 EST
The 770ED requires either SoftDVD, or DVD Express, depending on which
drivers you install. The original recovery disk was for SoftDVD
There is a region enconding file (MPGINST.EXE) which is required, of the
player will never work, the file is NOT available from IBM
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Capone" <mcapone_at_cesmail.net>
To: <thinkpad_at_stderr.org>
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 1:00 PM
Subject: [Thinkpad] How to get MS DVD player to appear on 770ED?
>
> Hello All-
>
> I have a friend who's putting together some 770ED packages
> with the EVA card + a win98SE install... the problem he's
> having is getting the DVD accel to work correctly. As I recall
> it works fine if you use the DVD player that comes with
> windows. The problem I'm running into is I'm not sure how
> to get the DVD player to appear. Somehow I found it loaded
> on one of my systems once, but I no longer have that
> machine. Basically it was like dvdplay.exe and 3 or 4
> other files, and it mystically appeared after installing the
> IBM mpeg drivers, however it's not happening like that
> in this particular case. Any advice is welcome. Why this
> specific player, you might ask? Well the WinDVD and PowerDVD
> players we've tried with the system are lurchy and
> slow... I don't think they use the hardware acceleration or
> something like that.
>
>
> -Mike
>
>
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