Software decoding

[gpayne]

That would make sense because you should not need the software decoding with one of their drives but if you had a poor disk, the software decoding theoritically could make the import better than hardware decoding. I don't think it is possible to turn software decoding on or off in this version of hoster! My backup system has a Plextor 716A drive and I have looked in the tools/default CD/DVD drives menu and there is no on or off selection for software decoding. However, this is also a MTU certified drive. I don't have anything but MTU certified drives and I have had 3 of them now. It was my experience with Versions earlier than 3.310 that hardware decoding was better even though I was using brand new disks.(Mostly Chartbuster) I could play older disks on my external karaoke player and have no snow but import them into hoster and have snow although if software decoding was turned off the imports were better. Before this version, there was no way to slow down the read speed of the drive so maybe that was why hardware decoding worked best for me. At any rate for the disks that I have been importing under version 3.310 the import process is slower becuase I have to slow down the read speed of the drive to get better quality imports. Maybe MTU could tell us how software vs hardware decoding works now that you can slow down the drive read speed. I know this was done so that it would work better with more drives. To me, it appears that it has slowed me down a bit. I am for sure not going to buy any Sound Choice disks. I wonder if this version of Hoster is better or worse for the majority of Hoster Users.

gpayne

P.S. My name is George. I sign off with gpayne so there is no confusion with the other George who posts in these forums.