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twist2
10th April 2002, 04:30
God did not make all video cards equal. My experience has been that various Nvidia TNT2 based cards all play back very well on Win98 systems 450mhz+. ATI all-in-wonder pro128 plays back MPEG2 very well, buy renders huge block artifacts playing MPEG4. (various divx codecs, all results the same for this discussion.) Now I just bought a Gainward brand Nvidia GEForce4 MMX440 based card and it seems to play back somewhat choppily on that same system. My next step is to try it on Win XP, but I'm in the process of moving and was just wondering what other's experiences have been.


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Deptmaster
10th April 2002, 17:19
What divx player are you using?

In my experience cards that cannot make use of overlays produce very bad images when playing mpeg4 video. In instances of high motion i used to get horizontal bars flashing on the screen. Some divx players also seem to make this problem worse.

WinXP or 2k won't be any worse than your current setup but I wouldnt expect it to fix all of your problems.
twist2
11th April 2002, 03:22
video players: both MP7 & microdvd play similarly " choppily " w/ the GEFORCE4. Actually it seems to play well, stop, catch up (2-3x speed), play well, stop, etc.

The same file over the LAN plays just peachy on a TNT2 in microdvd w/ win xp

the 98 machine is a 1.4 t-bird, 512ram

the xp box : duron900, 512 ram

so what video cards have you used? that's the real direction of my question.
Deptmaster
12th April 2002, 02:32
You're describing a problem different than the one I sometimes get. Does this occur with all divx videos or just the ones that you've created. If it only the videos youve done you might be looking at an interleaving problem, If its all videos I can't really say.
I have a geforceDDR 32mb and the only problems i get seem to stem from the fact that it doesnt always want to use overlays correctly. I'm sure youve already done this but if you havent- download the newest drivers and try tweaking the hardware acceleration in the advanced menus of the display properties.
Xidus
16th April 2002, 19:04
Oh, so maybe that's what's wrong. I had a different line of thinking. Maybe I was wrong.
me thread (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=23295)
twist2
17th April 2002, 23:28
well, I got done moving and finally had time to set up xp on the other box. I downloaded the newest detonator drivers and now the GeForce4 mx440 from gainward plays .avi's in microdvd with the 4.11 codec just flawlessly. :devil: