DIVX playback w/ STB Velocity 4400..

[Chris Lee]

Would divx look good with tv out from an stb velocity 4400 (tnt1)? Does anyone have any experience with this card and its tv out function?

 

[Ronstang]

I don't know whether the software that plays DIVX movies will even use the video out of a controller card. I'm sure someone here can clear this up. From what I've been told the monitor goes blank when you use the video out on a video card, but I could be wrong about this. I recently bought a DVD w/controller card and the TV out is spectacular and I can still use the computer while watching a DVD on the TV.

 

[Chris Lee]

hm.. thanks

i hope someone can clear this up..

 

[Chris Lee]

bump

 

[SendTrash]

What processor do you have? A videocard does nothing really in divx playback... But on my old 4 meg PCI card I couldn't watch a movie in fullscreen with 24 bit resolution

 

[Chris Lee]

I have a Tbird @ 1Ghz, 512mb ram, and a 64mb radeon.. but I was planning on getting a cheap 16mb pci STB velocity card to use for tv out for divx playback on my bigscreen tv.

Would it be choppy, fuzzy, blurry.. etc on tv out?

 

[hans007]

i've seen the tv out on the stb velocity. Its well HORRIBLE. unusable. The best i've ever seen is the ASUS tnt2 pro's that i used to sell, they were v3800 AGPS. you could actually read text and web browse on a tv. so it was decent. They make it in PCI i think.

 

[Chris Lee]

Hm.. I don't really need to see text on the tv out.. i only need the video playback..

 

[bassoprofundo]

If your Radeon's the VIVO, use that to output to tv. I doubt you'd get the TV-out on a secondary display adapter to function correctly anyway. My All-in-Wonder 128 does great output to my TV (via S-Video) I don't even need a monitor on that pc then. I just minimize the media player when I need to adjust something on the desktop. The AIW will boot using the video out for the primary display if nothing else is attached. You might be better to get a VGA to TV converter if your card isn't a VIVO.

 

[Workin']

The video card with TV-out has to be the primary card. So your idea won't work.

Get an external scan converter ("VGA->TV converter&quot, then you can have TV-out with ANY system.

 

[Chris Lee]

Will a scan converter work better than a video card's TV out?

 

[Workin']

A scan converter would have quality comparable to a video card's TV-out, of course it depends on which one you get and what you are comparing it to. One advantage is that many built-in TV-outs limit your resolution to 800x600, while many scan converters let you use 1024x768. The quality is no better, but less fooling around changing settings, etc.

But I suspect with Divx any kind of TV-out would be plenty good.