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Do you think that nVdvd will work with my PVR-250, ATI AIW 128 Pro 32mb combo?
I tried out the sonic one and it was a worse picture than I get from the decoder included with the pvr-250 drivers. Here is the list of chipsets supported Graphics Chips Supported All Microsoft DirectX® 8.x compatible chips, including: NVIDIA® GeForce 256 NVIDIA GeForce2 family NVIDIA GeForce3 family NVIDIA GeForce4 family NVIDIA GeForce FX family NVIDIA Quadro® family NVIDIA Quadro2 family NVIDIA Quadro DCC family NVIDIA Quadro4 family NVIDIA Quadro FX family NVIDIA nForce family NVIDIA nForce2 family ATI® Radeon family Intel® i845G Intel i815G/i815EG but I figured my may not be on here becuase it is so old, but may be similiar enough to the ATI Radeon??? Well that is what I was hoping. Are there any other options for me? Last edited by maxpower2078; 10-26-2004 at 03:05 PM. |
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I don't know for sure, but I'd have might doubts about much of anything working very well with an AIW 128 Pro. That's a pretty obsolete card with very little RAM. As far as I know, nvDVD requres an Radeon on the ATI side.
You might want to try PowerDVD though. That might work with that low level of a graphics card and may be slightly better than what came with the PVR-250, but not as good as sonic or nvDVD would be (from what I understand) with a higher level card. |
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yeah I know it is so old, I just threw this machine together and that is what I had.
Is that going to effect the final product though. The only thing really important is the actual encoded mpeg. So if nVdvd is doing the decoding, what is going to do the best encoding? Plus I thought this was done by the hardware. ![]() |
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The encoding is done in the hardware of the PVR-250, so the recording will be as good as whichever recording quality you select. The video card will only limit how well it can be played back.
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Also got an ATI (not an AIW) card with only 2Meg, and a really old generic vid card with only 512K. Of course, I don't make much use of those other than for a quick setup to test a motherboard or something like that. Last edited by mls; 10-26-2004 at 03:28 PM. |
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Thanks, I should have realized that. Anyways, I am just goofing around, I need to step up to a digital source though. I am currently using basic cable, but it is cheap, I will give it that.
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