6150 and HD PVR

[Steve52]

Anyone have success playing back recordings thru Sage from the HD PVR using on board nVidia 6150 video chip? (1080i not 1080p)

[phelme]

Originally Posted by Steve52

Anyone have success playing back recordings thru Sage from the HD PVR using on board nVidia 6150 video chip? (1080i not 1080p)

surprisingly... yes, on an aging Asus Pundit client. I'm currently capturing everything 720P off my H20 DirecTV receiver. As long as I don't go near VMR9 and stay in Overlay mode it's fine. Using ArcSoft decoders and the AC3Filter.

I'm going to try 1080i (and native) capturing later today and see how that goes.

[Steve52]

Originally Posted by phelme

surprisingly... yes, on an aging Asus Pundit client. I'm currently capturing everything 720P off my H20 DirecTV receiver. As long as I don't go near VMR9 and stay in Overlay mode it's fine. Using ArcSoft decoders and the AC3Filter.

I'm going to try 1080i (and native) capturing later today and see how that goes.

Please post how it went with 1080i.

Also, What cpu do you have in that machine?

[phelme]

AMD 3800+ X2

I ran a couple 1080i recordings (again w/Overlay) and it seemed fine. I love the Pundit, but this one only has a PCI slot and the one card I could find that fit this slow bus (ATI 2400 Pro) doesn't run any better than the 6150. I'll probably upgrade to a newer Pundit with updated graphics at some point so I can run VMR9, but for now it's fine.

Oh one other thing to note, I'm driving my projector 1280x720 with the 6150.

[Steve52]

Thanks!
I am running two clients with 6150 video. One has an AMD 3700+ and the other has a 3800+ both single core. I have never used FSE or VRM9 and really don't know what benefit they would give. My system looks great with overlay. As to wheather I can run H.264 on these machines remains to be seen I guess since I have much smaller processors.