Will my graphics card work with Hauppauge WinTV Nova T500 and gbpvr?

[ElyBoy]

I'm thinking about buying the WinTV Nova T500 card and using it with GBPVR but am not sure whether my graphics card will be ok with it.

I have a 128mb nVidia Geforce4 Ti4200 card.

Can anyone help me please? :confused:

[jonb1974]

no reason why it shouldn't

[ElyBoy]

no reason why it shouldn't

Thanks for the reply.

The reason I asked is because I read on Hauppauge's web site that their suggested minimum system requirements for graphics is an nVidia 5200 or above (or ATI9200 or above). From the research I've done today (if correct), means that my 5 year old Ti4200 graphics card has the same technical specs as a 5200. If that's the case then I'll be ok. I don't really want to folk out £50 on the pci card only to find my graphics card isn't suitable.

[herbs]

If it helps I use a geforce 440mx with gbpvr and have a nova-t, a nova-t stick in this pc.

[blizard]

Thanks for the reply.

The reason I asked is because I read on Hauppauge's web site that their suggested minimum system requirements for graphics is an nVidia 5200 or above (or ATI9200 or above). From the research I've done today (if correct), means that my 5 year old Ti4200 graphics card has the same technical specs as a 5200. If that's the case then I'll be ok. I don't really want to folk out £50 on the pci card only to find my graphics card isn't suitable.

There are some feature that you will lack and that will make GBPVR and PVRX2 less functional as you will lack support in video cards hardware GPU fro some version of overlay rendering. Why don't you upgrade your video card? There are still some good AGP video card (even some good PCI, not PCI express version) that are rather cheap and do have support for the latest Windows Media Renderer 9 - WMR9 (I think yours will only support up to WMR7 and DirectX7 not DirectX9). It will help you if you need to re-size picture or want to watch high definition of any kind. My old geforce 2/200 MX did manage DVD resolution, so that will not be a problem, but you will notice that more and more will be at higher resolution. You will also gain better visual colour compression if that is done by video card, so I would look into an upgrade on that front before AGP or PCI will be harder to find to decent price.

Just to make clear: TV-tuner have their own driver and in your case it is digital tv-tuner which capture in MPEG2. MPEG2 files can become rather large at high bit rate, so you will need some large hard disk to store or process those file on. AVIdemux is good tool for editing MPEG2 PS (I think DVB is in Transport Stream (MPEG2 TS) , not Program Stream) where you can cut out commercials. It will save you some hard disk space. There a different way to compress your MPEG2 file and you could use stattiks batch file or use other option to set it to run automatic at night like GBPVR offer.

The point here is that tv-tuner is not related to your video card and you use different driver for both. It is when you want eatch your media that your video card start to interact with MPEG2 file, reading (=splitter) it and creating a filter chain to decode it and send it to renderer which is connected to type of hardware support from your video card.

When you play a video, you actually make use of a filter chain. That means that you need a renderer at the end of this chain and it is here you will see that it is a difference between staying on old DirectX7 (as only renderer that support those video card is WMR7) and that can make it tricky to place to layer above each other like On Screen Display or Sub title. DirectX9 is the last generation of video cards API which is supported on AMD/ATi X1xxx card like X1600 and nvida 7900 (7th generation). Those with AMD HD2300 and Nvidia 8800 GTS (8th gen.) do support DirectX10 which is the newest version of DirectX for those GPU.

Look for what sub say about hardware recommendation to run PVRX2.exe for GBPVR:http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=27623

[ElyBoy]

Herbs, Blizard,
Many thanks for your replies. This is really helpful. I really appreciate it.