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DVD Decoders

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I have a Toshiba 4300 series laptop with a DVD player. Recently i took Win98 off of it and put on WinXP. Unfortunately, i believe it uses a software decoder for the DVD player that i no longer have. Does anyone have a solution?
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powerdvd (i use this one)
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What gpu does the lappy use?

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it is a savage i think, is that S3?
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yea, s3...its probably built into a VIA chipset.

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