DVB-T in New Zealand

[psycik]

What is your current video card?

[lost@c]

I have an Asus M2a-VM HDMI motherboard with onboard graphics. I don't think it is up to the task for H264.

[psycik]

Ahh yes, looks like it has an integrated Radeon X1250 GPU, so yeah I'd pick that as too small. I think there are some with ATI 3200HD chips in them, but I've heard mixed reports of it working.

I know of more people having success with Nvidia based cards over ATI, but there have been recent success with ATI. I use nvidia because I'd heard of problems.

[serafis]

I have an Asus M2a-VM HDMI motherboard with onboard graphics. I don't think it is up to the task for H264.

I have the same mobo with an X2 4800 (2.5GHz) processor, and from my experience it is *just* capable of H.264 avi or mkv sources up to 1080p, but it's not up to H.264 DVB-T Freeview either SD or HD.

I tried a PCI/E ATI card (HD3450 from memory) but could not get DXVA hardware acceleration to work properly on DVB-T Freeview with Cyberlink H.264 PDV7 or 8:- bad pixellation, green flashes, stutters and freezes. Odd, because the mobo has onboard ATI so I thought that would be best. Shows what I know. The best I could get was if I turned hardware acceleration off, then it was *nearly* as good as on the onboard graphics!

So I returned the card (thanks Ascent!) and got a ASUS NVidia 9400GT silent (takes 2 slots but that's OK - the Palit one might have been netter but cost more) and DXVA worked perfectly out of the box.

[lost@c]

This is exactly what I was considdering but the 2 slot thing is a killer for me as both my PCI slots are taken with my HVR3000 and PVR150. I need to find a single slot soloution.

[serafis]

I think Palit have a single slot 9400GT silent. Google "palit 9400gt silent".

[Deev8]

Ahh yes, looks like it has an integrated Radeon X1250 GPU, so yeah I'd pick that as too small. I think there are some with ATI 3200HD chips in them, but I've heard mixed reports of it working.

I have a Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-US2H motherboard with integrated ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics Processor. That handles H.264 hardware acceleration for New Zealand HD broadcasts just fine.