MADMAX... Kinda off the subject, but you said " the 8500DV card cant be beat if you have TV OUT needs. " I have been looking to do the same thing kinda, and havent seen much on this. I would love to hear how good the quality is and if there is any problems with re sizing or anything like that ?
The 8500DV quality is excellent for playing DVDs or any other video on a regular tv. No resizing issues. WINDVD4 can even do PAN and SCAN. However if you are NOT playing DVD's or video, the screen and text is readable but not near as high resolution as an SVGA monitor. Also, I haven’t played any video games with this yet since I have other machines for that, but ATI has always been known to have driver issues with gaming. So, the 8500DV computer is dedicated to TV OUT at this point. FYI: other components in your computer can make a huge difference in video playback as well, for instance I am running this card on, -1400MHz Athlon Processor -266MHz FSB (Front Side Bus) -1000MB PC133 SDRAM -60GB 7500RPM ATA100 Hard Drive -and a biostar motherboard because they ruLE -and most importantly, keep it well cooled BTW, I can run 2 .VOB movies simultaneously with no degrading the video at all on this system Find the best price for the ATI 8500DV http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_...801&ut=440d2ab844c5c25f&found=2&search=8500DV
Another alternative is to buy a larger SVGA monitor, I own last years model AR2.7T. These are true 27"-36" SVGA monitors (NOT TV'S) You can find the 27" version online for around $1000.00 which is a really good deal as they were selling for $1700.00 2 years ago. They are a better deal than an LCD. http://www.princetongraphics.com/Products/ProductsF.html
Madmax: Thanks for all that info. So to sum things up, watching a DVD movie on my TV from this card with a beefy machine is gonna look just as clear as a monitor ? I watch DVDs on my laptop, and other then the small size, I am thrilled with how the movie looks. Thanks again !
correction to my post and a new problem ----------------------------------- 4.00GB file to 4.38GB DVD-R won't write I ripped this 4.00GB .VOB file with DVD DECRYPTER. I keep getting the error "Not enough disk space" I am using Windows XP with NTFS which should support large files. I have tried formatting the DVD-R and not formatting the DVD-R Can DVD DECRYPTER be modified to make an .VOB in IFO mode 3.8GB as this file size works fine for burning. I dont want to use the 1GB-2GB option as this will be to many files. Any ideas, Help?
I think I answered my own question as I talked to a friend who has the same burner Panasonic LF-D311 (310) Basically the burning/authoring software has to write its own files to the disk so you only have about 3.8GB to work with... or burning space on the DVD-R I have requested that DVDDECRYPTER be made to adjust the IFO file size to whatever you need 3.5GB or 3.8GB would help alot and cut down on the amount of files to burn. BTW, 4.7GB is bullshit!!! they should say 4.38GB minus your burning software formatting = approximately 3.8GB >>> Can anyone recommend burning software that does not use as much formatting space? <<<
New plan, at least until DVDDECRYPTER can allow me to modify the .vob size to anything (see my example below) -------------------------------------- DISK 1 (DVR-R) 1.VOB 700MB 2.VOB 700MB 3.VOB 700MB 4.VOB 700MB 5.VOB 700MB =3.5GB DISK 2 (DVD-R) 6.VOB 700MB 7.VOB 700MB 8.VOB 700MB 9.VOB 700MB 10.VOB 700MB =3.5GB Then just use the playlist option in WINDVD4 to play without interuption. If you need a second DVD-ROM drive http://compuvest.com/engine/default1024.asp?52557 Black Toshiba
i us claddvdxp it lets you pick the size of the vob files this really helps and also has good ifo options has anyone tryed the tv out on the geforce4 video cards
DVDtron: I used a Ge Force 2 with a TV out. I wasnt impressed very much. But I cant swear that the card didnt have something wrong with it ?
I have found that to back up my movies, DVDs included the best thing by far is to copy them with SmartRipper or DVD decrypter for DVDs (a capture card for VHS ans SVHS) and the compress them using FlaskMpeg into the DIVx format (free at www.divx.com) to around 1.4 Mbytes using the two pass approach, with no audio compression. Then I read them into VirtualDub, and set the video to direct stream, the audio to MP3 compression and the final product is a great movie with incredible quality (nearly as good as DVD unless you want frame by frame detail), and this allows me to place 3 movies per DVD+R. I then use my ATI card with WINTV to control the video size and output it to my widscreen TV. It looks great, I can fool everybody I have tried to make them believe they are watching a DVD directly. This sounds like a great solution for movie archival and back up at least till higher density DVD+r become widely available
