xcard

[Darx-starz]

I have a need to play DVD's on my PVR. It is a custom rig that is bare bones and is only for GB-PVR. It does nothing else. I did buy a SD Xcard for it but decided to output the TV to the PVR350 card which works great. However the Boss wants to play DVD's. Which is fair enough I suppose. What do I need to do to get the Xcard working? Do I slap the card in and install disk 1 drivers and configure in GB-PVR?

I have tried this card in my normal PC and thought the output was good but it crashed all the time when I gave it the odd avi file. Am I being unkind? Any help would be usefull.

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Quote[/b] ]Do I slap the card in and install disk 1 drivers and configure in GB-PVR?

Pretty much.

Quote[/b] ]and thought the output was good but it crashed all the time when I gave it the odd avi file. Am I being unkind?

AVI file is just a container and can contain all sorts of different codecs and version (DivX/XVid) etc. I've pretty much only used DivX, which work fine, but its certainly possibly you're trying to play a type of AVI file that the XCard hardware doesnt like. You'd need to use something like gspot to analyse the specific problem AVI.

[Darx-starz]

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AVI file is just a container and can contain all sorts of different codecs and version (DivX/XVid) etc. I've pretty much only used DivX, which work fine, but its certainly possibly you're trying to play a type of AVI file that the XCard hardware doesnt like. You'd need to use something like gspot to analyse the specific problem AVI.

Thanks Sub. Gspot reports all is well. I think my machine is a bit screwed now with all the codecs and stuff I have been installing lately. I will give the xcard a go.

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Quote[/b] ]Gspot reports all is well.

What I meant was - you could use GSpot to identify what type AVI file it was, then compare that to the list AVI formats supported by the XCard.