2007-07-15, 11:25 AM
After using my PVR350 tv-out for a couple of years, I am trying to get the video-out of my videocard working smoothly (have to, because of the 1.0 version is not supporting the PVR350 tv-out anymore). Unfortunately, I still see some hickups from time to time.
My first question: is my hardware fast enough for smooth video play?
Pentium4 1,7 Ghz (compaq EVO D300)
512 MB RAM
PVR350 capturecard
Ati Radeon 7200 videocard (AGP)
samsung 250GB 8MB cache harddisk
The hickups I see are barely visible, but they give me a headache; in scenes where the background is moving (a helicopter view of a landscape turning round; the Tour de France) it sometimes drops one or two frames. If I rewind, it still drops the frame(s) at (almost?) the same point. This does not happen when using the tv-out of the PVR350.
The CPU does not reach 100%. It stays around 30% to 90%, depending on the decoder used (Nvidia, dscaler, intervideo, MPV, Nero, elecard, Cyberlink), the video render (overlay, VMR9) and whether the pc is recording another program (with comskip running).
I'm trying to get this working nicely with version GBPVR 0.99.12 (with XP) before upgrading to version 1.0.
Is this normal behavior? Should I just get used to the frame droppings? Or should I get better hardware? (I still noticed the frame droppings using an athlon 2600+ with 1 GB RAM; my desktop PC)
I did use the newest drivers for the videocard, btw.
Any comments are appreciated.
My first question: is my hardware fast enough for smooth video play?
Pentium4 1,7 Ghz (compaq EVO D300)
512 MB RAM
PVR350 capturecard
Ati Radeon 7200 videocard (AGP)
samsung 250GB 8MB cache harddisk
The hickups I see are barely visible, but they give me a headache; in scenes where the background is moving (a helicopter view of a landscape turning round; the Tour de France) it sometimes drops one or two frames. If I rewind, it still drops the frame(s) at (almost?) the same point. This does not happen when using the tv-out of the PVR350.
The CPU does not reach 100%. It stays around 30% to 90%, depending on the decoder used (Nvidia, dscaler, intervideo, MPV, Nero, elecard, Cyberlink), the video render (overlay, VMR9) and whether the pc is recording another program (with comskip running).
I'm trying to get this working nicely with version GBPVR 0.99.12 (with XP) before upgrading to version 1.0.
Is this normal behavior? Should I just get used to the frame droppings? Or should I get better hardware? (I still noticed the frame droppings using an athlon 2600+ with 1 GB RAM; my desktop PC)
I did use the newest drivers for the videocard, btw.
Any comments are appreciated.