Re: Will a TV tuner play live TV on an onboard video PC?

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With a nVidia 8500 and a dual core 3800 I can do multiple recordings while playing back a recording at 1080p. Any newer video card be it ATI or nVidia will off load the work of HD video to the graphics card. The 6100 is outdated and was intended to be used in a business environment not in a HTPC.


"davexnet" <davexnet02@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23WAYg%23%23CKHA.568@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I'm perfectly able to play 720p downloaded to a file on the harddrive and
played in Windows media player - is there a difference?
Secondly, I'm not playing it full screen, but in a smallish window - is
there a difference?

Here's the other odd thing: My box is dual boot, xp sp3 and vista sp2.
Those symptoms I described occur in XP SP3. I'm using the latest version
of Aver media center as advised by the company, version 175 available from
their FTP site.

I've also tried the card in Vista with Vista Media Center and TV Pack
installed.
In that setup, the HD channels play without locking up, but the analog
channels
have a problem. After a few seconds of watching an analog station, the
image pixelates, freezes, then the sound turns into a series of chirps.
If I'm not careful and exit out quick, Vista is entirely hung and I have
to use the reset button on the PC to recover the PC.
This is almost the reverse of the situation in XP.

Do you still blame the onboard video ? Of course, I could always pickup
a video card and try it.

"jolt" <ergoacess@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The nvidia 6100 does not support HD video acceleration, coupled with the
use
of a 2.2 GHz. cpu explains the inability to properly process a HD stream.
The easiest and least expensive way to overcome this would be to upgrade
to
a video card that supports HDVA. My experience with a motherboard with
onboard nVidia 6150 which does supports HDVA was that 720p was the max
output resolution it would support before it displayed the same results
you
are experiencing



"davexnet" <davexnet02@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I've an incident open with Avermedia regarding the M780
> combo card. When I install the latest drivers and Avers
> Media Center application, the analog input channels
> (from my Time Warner cable feed) play back just fine.
>
> However, when I play something from the digital tuner,
> (ATSC from the rooftop antenna)
> it sometimes plays OK for a few seconds, but eventually
> (and sometimes it happens right after I change channels)
> it freezes, and if I wait too long ( before, for example, quickly
> switching back to analog, or otherwise stopping the MC
> display) the whole application has frozen and I have to use
> task manager to clear it out. These digitals channels, are either
> 480i, 720p or 1080i. I haven't seen any pattern in whether
> certain channels cause the problem.
>
> Avermedia are trying to lay the blame on the fact that I have
> onboard video, which uses up to 256 MB shared memory.
>
> I'm new to tuners so I am unable to evaluate their position.
> Could that be the problem? I have 2GB's of Ram, and an
> AmD 64 X2 dual core @ 2.2 GHz using XP SP3
> This is my motherboard -
> http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en-us/mb/content.php?S_ID=26
> thanks for any assistance.
>
>
>




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