Building a stand alone DivX Player

[Chuck Roulette]

I need some advice guys. I have built a stand alone DivX player out of old pieces and parts: (FIC VA503+, K6-300, 128mg PC100 RAM, NVidia GeForce MX2, 16bit Sound Blaster,IR Remote, blah blah blah....). I have it hooked up to my receiver and 32" TV....works great. Anyway, as you can tell I need a new sound card. That's the only thing that sucks. I don't really want to spend big $$$, preferably under $75. I am also curious, does it make a difference if I get a card with RCA outputs on it or not? All wisdom will be most appreciated. TIA!

[patrickm]

no, RCA outs or 1/8" outs don't matter, it's the same signal.

but i think this is your answer-

http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SQ1500

i've had some problems getting the SPDIF digital out to work under win2k, but supposedly it can be done. it works great under win9x though. $9.50

if you want, also check out ebay for the better version, the Aureal Vortex2 SQ2500. that's the one i have in my better computer, very good sound quality, digital out works great in all OS's. i've seen them on ebay in the $20 range...

[mike144k]

What OS are you using in this box? I've got a celeron 366 mhz and that sounds like a good idea. But my box was a little jumpy playing DVD's but would Divx's be ok? Are there any hardware decoder cards for Divx?

Thanks
Mike

[danmanx]

No hardware decoders for divx. Too bad really...I'm sick of needing a Gigahertz system to just watch silly movies!

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[danmanx]

Sorry for the double post. Can't delete it...weird.
Well Sigma Designs is supposedly coming out with a MPEG-4 chip. I'm sure that can be used for DivX if somebody tried hard enough. Any new information on that is greatly appreciated.

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