Which card do you advice me to get for Xvid Playback on TV?

[tomy601k]

As the topic says ... I want to buy a new graphic card ... and I was wondering which one is the best for Xvid playback on TV ... someone mentioned to me ATI All in wonder ... but honestly ... I don't know about it ... if anyone tried to playback their Xvid movies on TV please give me a feedback ... Thanks ...

Tomy.

[cult]

i have a radeon 8500,looking great.

[sillKotscha]

ATI AllInWonder 7500

this was the best choice I've ever made... NO need for TVTool 'cause there are no black bars seen on TV. That's ATI!!!

ok, now I would buy myself the Radeon8500 + a seperate digital tv card

that's the way to start.

btw, to answer to your question ;) , with my card I've never had any problems watching a movie on tv...vcd, (s)vcd, divxxvid, just give me a movie encoded with any codec out there and I'll watch it with pure pleasure!!

cheers sill

[ookzDVD]

I'm using the old cheap GeForce2 MX200 (Chrotel chip) with TVTool.
Cheap (only $40) and nice!

[ma.hoff]

What about interlaced playback ?

I have encoded interlaced video (from capture source) with xvid as interlaced_mpeg4 ! So far so good !
Watching this one with mplayer via DVBs card is great picture (beside some artefacts because of the mpeg1 realtime encoding) !

How would a normal vga card (with tv-out) map the interlaced content to the screen ??? Is it really producing 576 lines - i mean is the vga resolution 576 lines then ? Or does the card "rescale" e.g. 800x600 to a valid PAL resolution ? If the latter is the case interlaced video won't play ...

Anyone ?

Martin:confused:

[Asmodian]

I believe they actually rescale, I have noticed 'interlace' artifacts on my TV when playing DVD's using a radion 7500.

[StoneQuader]

In case your card (and tv-out chipset) is supported by TvTool you could change the resolution to 720x576 (You're using PAL, right?), in this case your card doesn't scale the picture and you don't see any interlace lines on your tv. The picture quality is very good, even on my cheap Geforce2MX.

[chemmajik]

Zoomplayer & XVid interlaced on RadeonVE 7000 works great, it defaults to 640x480 anyways, but you can change that for lower or higher resolution stuff also. Looks better then VHS for sure hehe. I hate tapes now, except for emergency recording when low on space.

[Kb_cruncher]

i have a matrox g450 dualhead.the quality is awesome and my kids can watch movies while i reply to posts :-)

[cult]

the same u can do with radeon setted overlay to theater mode.The one monitor(tv,etc.) will show maximized movie while in the other u can do ur work

[Didée]

I use both an ATI AIW 8500DV and a Matrox DH G400MAX in two different machines.

ATI´s IQ is really good, compared to Nvidea. Though it has some flaws ...

The IQ of Matrox is the best I´ve ever seen. Still unbeaten.

This is just my humble opinion ... but founded.

If IQ is the one and only matter, go Matrox.

Honestly

Didée

[Aktan]

The only problem i have seen with ATI is that the driver currently does not support YU12 overlay mode to TV. That is my only complant for my ATI Radeon 8500

[Stabmaster-Arson]

The TV out just interpolates to the res of the tv. The interlacing wont work exacxtly right, but seems not to be a problem. Even 24 fps videos run smooth as far as I can tell. So if the question is interlaced a good way to encode xvid for tv playback, that im not sure. I would assume a non interlaced source would be better.

[facts]

the same u can do with radeon setted overlay to theater mode.The one monitor(tv,etc.) will show maximized movie while in the other u can do ur work

tell me more cult, can you explain how to do this, or have a link?

[cult]

its built in the drivers,no need to download anything.Go to display/advanced and then set overlay to theater mode.When u check this option every video will play in the second monitor maximazed and u can minimized in ur 1st monitor,allowing u to do ur work.At least this happens with my 8500 radeon

[gooki]

I can comfirm theatre mode overlay works very well with my ati radeon 7000/ve.

Thanks for the tip Cult.