ATI theater 550 pro decoding/encoding/filter

[dragonfiregum]

I was reading the box to my Theater 550 pro and it says it has real-time hardware mpeg2 encoding.Wouldnt that mean i wouldnt need a software decoder because its already encoded to what it would be decoded to?
If so , what should i do about that?
Also Its suppose to have hardware 3d comb filter and hardware noise reduction along with integrated anti-aliasing filter.
Is there a way to turn on/off these to see if there working or not?
Are they working? or would i need to setup something special.
Looking at the samples pictures on the box without 3dcomb and noise reduction is about what my picture quality is. So maybe thats why i have had lousey quality?
What im saying is , is gb-pvr utilitizing the full ability of this cardtype? or is there some problems stopping it?

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I was reading the box to my Theater 550 pro and it says it has real-time hardware mpeg2 encoding.Wouldnt that mean i wouldnt need a software decoder because its already encoded to what it would be decoded to?

It only has hardware MPEG2 encoding. It does not have hardware MPEG2 decoding, so you need to do software decoding. MPEG2 data needs to be decoded back to raw pictures before it can be displayed on the screen. You have no hardware that does this for you, so it needs to be done in software.

Also Its suppose to have hardware 3d comb filter and hardware noise reduction along with integrated anti-aliasing filter.
Is there a way to turn on/off these to see if there working or not?

I have no information on how to access these special features on the 550 pro, so it just uses the driver defaults. I'm fairly sure they're enabled by default though. If you're lucky, changing the defaults in another app will carry over into GB-PVR also.

[dragonfiregum]

Wow, i changed a few settings in my other program for there display settings.
I did make the picture a little brighter.( It was a lil dark ) its now a tad clearer.
Also.. youll never believe this ... maybe you will lol.
The options on the program state turn on 2d mode and keep color and special effects low/off (respectfully)
Well i turned on 3d mode and turned on the special effects and color brightness up.......it doesnt slow the program down but its making it run 40% faster and load tv up faster.