eVGA 7600GS for HDTV HT
Any issues / problems with using this card for HDTV home theater? Any issue with 1366 x 768? The card is going into a PC that currently using onboard video from a nVidia 6100 GPU. (Ath 3700 San Diego, 1gb memory, 1.2tb storage) Looking for smoother DVD playback. |
eVGA 7600GS for HDTV HT
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 12:11:05 -0500, Old Guy wrote:
Any issues / problems with using this card for HDTV home theater? Any issue with 1366 x 768? Shouldn't be any problems. The card is going into a PC that currently using onboard video from a nVidia 6100 GPU. (Ath 3700 San Diego, 1gb memory, 1.2tb storage) Looking for smoother DVD playback. I've got MythTV running on a 6100 and finally got decent HD playback using the standard decoding and kernel deinterlacing. Using XvMC played ok but audio was choppy. I don't watch much on this box as it's the server. A driver upgrade may or may not fix the XvMC playback. -- Want the ultimate in free OTA SD/HDTV Recorder? http://mythtv.org http://mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html Usenet alt.video.ptv.mythtv My server http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.php HD Tivo S3 compared http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/mythtivo.htm |
eVGA 7600GS for HDTV HT
Wes Newell wrote:
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 12:11:05 -0500, Old Guy wrote: Any issues / problems with using this card for HDTV home theater? Any issue with 1366 x 768? Shouldn't be any problems. The card is going into a PC that currently using onboard video from a nVidia 6100 GPU. (Ath 3700 San Diego, 1gb memory, 1.2tb storage) Looking for smoother DVD playback. I've got MythTV running on a 6100 and finally got decent HD playback using the standard decoding and kernel deinterlacing. Using XvMC played ok but audio was choppy. I don't watch much on this box as it's the server. A driver upgrade may or may not fix the XvMC playback. Thank you for the suggestion. I might give that a try on a future Linux box. I've got a Fedora 6 box running on our home network (small Sempron 64 w/ 1gb of memory, onboard ATI RS200 video). But the current HT system is on an XP Pro box using PowerDVD 6.0. If / when the time comes, would it be a major effort to port over all those NTFS-based movie files and their associated directories (hundreds of DVDs worth of movies!)? I would want them on the system that would perform playback. Would I be able to access the movies if I just installed Fedora on the current Windoze partition? Since most of the rest of the family is not familiar with Linux, would they be able to find movies without much effort? |
eVGA 7600GS for HDTV HT
Old Guy wrote:
Any issues / problems with using this card for HDTV home theater? Any issue with 1366 x 768? The card is going into a PC that currently using onboard video from a nVidia 6100 GPU. (Ath 3700 San Diego, 1gb memory, 1.2tb storage) Looking for smoother DVD playback. I don't really know, but wouldn't you know, I'm going to reply anyway. This page, found in a Google search for keywords nvidia 6100 and scaling: http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=2539 ....mentions only basic scaling capabilities of the 6100. While I don't know exactly what that means, I thought it might have something to do with it. Another thought I had was something SP2 for XP must do, like installing the Windows firewall or something. A guy at work had an eMachines with a 1 GHz Celeron. After installing SP2, his video started to stutter. I figured it was probably some service like the firewall, but he ****ed me off so I just put it back the way it was without investigating further. You might try disabling the firewall, or turning off antivirus protection, if any, to see if it helps. Otherwise, I would head over to systernals.com, now owned by MS, and try to find some monitoring program and look for a process or service that is not playing well with others. Or just get a cheap dual core processor or buy an ATI card. AMD needs your money! |
eVGA 7600GS for HDTV HT
I should mention that the 8600 series has just been
launched. There may be further price cuts on the 7600s. http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2970 |
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