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To: John Rieman who wrote (39152)	3/5/1999 4:52:00 PM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

re: Creative and Luxsonor.... Creative PC-DVD OEM Inlay Kit Every once in a while I'll hit the local computer shows. The last one I attended didn't have much that I considered to be affordable or useful but just as we were getting ready to leave I spotted a medium brown box under a vendors table and with a bit of dickering bought my very first DVD Multimedia upgrade kit. Now I'll admit to have covetously gazed at the ads for such devices in some of the trade magazines. A pretty hefty investment in a vew VCR and Home Theater sound system just last Xmas, not to mention a rather large library of video cassettes, the $300.00 (min.) price tag and the $20.00+ cost per title of the disks, just didn't make it seem a prudent buy on our budget. But here was an OEM kit for $110.00. The cash flew out of my wallet. Now I read the labels on the outside of the box and in my innocence believed that I was buying the OEM version of the Creative PC-DVD2 Encore w/Dxr2. [snip] DVD Problems You configure the DVD Player through a dialog box that asks you to choose your (if its supported) video card and whether you want the output to the TV to be in NTSC (Composite Video) or PAL (S-Video). You make your choices, click on "Save and Exit" and you're all set and ready to watch your first movie. Right? Well, not quite, for me anyway. The player doesn't support Autoplay as the player accompanying Windows 98 does. And, you need to have the disk in and detected before you start the player, otherwise you will get a dialog box that says there is no disk in the drive. Not a big deal but it doesn't always detect it if you put it in after the fact. But things weren't even that simple. I kept receiving error messages everytime I attempted to start the player. VPE/VPM is set properly! is all it said. A quick peek at the troubleshooter in the manual revealed nothing whatsoever about VPE/VPM. After reading evert text file on the installation disk to no avail and sorta guessing that the VPM meant Virtual Protected Mode I decided to call Creative Labs Tech Support. [snip] It would leave the required drivers in the system. It is so nice to have friends... He also informed me that the PC-DVD Inlay system used a LuxSonor MPEG2 decoder board and that if I finagled with thi .inf file found on Windows 98 I could have Windows 98's DVD player program up and working in no time. [snip] super7.net