m-peg card ???????

[davie_zone]

i was recently advised 2 buy an m-peg card for my pc for the pupose of watching my movies .
I have since bought 1 and found out for a start i cant watch divx or avi files which i didnt know and when i watch my vcd's svcds every few minutes or so the picture and sound pause for a half a second or so which is annoying it also a little blocky at times .

I thought my computer might have been to slow so i upgraded to a 1.8 ghz xp but still no luck ,,,the m-peg card runs through my graphics card which is an ati rage do u think it is this that needs upgrading . I dont want to fork out again if i dont have to . If it is can someone reccomend me a graphics card ( i dont play games just watch movies ) thank u a lot for all of your help and keep up the good work .

[Dave B]

Unless your MPEG card has extra features such as a TV output then you should no longer require it to watch DVDs.

Most PCs have the raw CPU power to provide MPEG decompression without extra hardware. All you require is a DVD-ROM drive and a suitable software DVD player such as PowerDVD or WinDVD.

If you want to watch DivX then you must download the relevant codecs. You can find them by following the links below.
http://www.divx-digest.com/software/divxcodec.html
http://www.divx.com/divx/

You do not have to buy a new graphics card or anything else.