Hello,
I have a Creative Multimedia Upgrade kit (the old one, with a SoundBlaster Pro
and a Matsushita CD-ROM). I installed Microsft Encarta the other day. During
Setup Encarta tests the system. including CD-ROM, to see if it meets MPC
standards. It flagged a "warning" for the CD-ROM drive: it says the CD-ROM is
NOT MPC compatible. I've noticed the movies in Encarta are jumpy, so the CD-ROM
seems to be to slow, although it ports a MPC logo. I've tried several solutions
(new drivers, v2.0, changing drivers in memory, new MCDEX, etc.) to no avail.
Any ideas?
Jozef (Belgium)
The Encarta movies *are* jumpy. <g> I believe that play at a frame rate of
about 8 frames per second, perhaps even less. Encarta was developed before
Video for Windows, and does not use that technology — the movies are really
some kind of animation.
The reason for the low frame rate: to converse disk space.
Ron