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[razmalaidogg]

My goal is to watch DIVX movies on my TV at home.

It takes time to make VCDs/SVCDs and I was wondering if it would be better to get a video card with TV out and just run the video to my TV without burning VCDs. This way, I could keep a DIVX movie on one CDR since it is in a compressed format.

Would picture quality be better with this approach? Or will my hardware limit the picture quality/make it worse than a high quality VCD/SVCD.

Also can anyone recommend a card with TV out for someone who is not willing to spend a lot of money on a high end card? Thanks!!

[mike144k]

Well TV-outs really a pain because on mine (Herculeus 4500) you have to reboot each time you want to use and its at 800x600 resolution and some ungodly low refresh rate that actually hurts my eyes. I would reccomend buying/finding some parts to make a 400mhz+ comp with a TV out card get an IR controler put linux or Win2k on it put it under your TV and viola you have a Standalone Divx player.

Mike

I have a 64 meg ATI Radeon VIVO(video-input video-output) with S-video out and Divx looks and sounds really close to a DVD. I do agree with mike144k about the resolution thing but its worth the little bit of trouble you will have to go through and with a VCD you have to convert it to VCD then record the cd which will take much longer then outputing to the TV.
Jaymans

[razmalaidogg]

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On 2001-09-26 15:51:16, mike144k wrote:
Well TV-outs really a pain because on mine (Herculeus 4500) you have to reboot each time you want to use and its at 800x600 resolution and some ungodly low refresh rate that actually hurts my eyes. I would reccomend buying/finding some parts to make a 400mhz+ comp with a TV out card get an IR controler put linux or Win2k on it put it under your TV and viola you have a Standalone Divx player.

Mike
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Mike thanks a lot for the advice. I appreciate it!

Raz

[razmalaidogg]

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On 2001-09-26 16:34:53, Jaymans wrote:
I have a 64 meg ATI Radeon VIVO(video-input video-output) with S-video out and Divx looks and sounds really close to a DVD. I do agree with mike144k about the resolution thing but its worth the little bit of trouble you will have to go through and with a VCD you have to convert it to VCD then record the cd which will take much longer then outputing to the TV.
Jaymans
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Jay thanks a lot for the advice. I appreciate it!

Raz

[El_Mero_Zooter]

RaZ,
to add to da postz.
if you're divx'z are real good quality,and if u want to view them on a dvdplayer in da future (or share them with friendz etc...) then vcd them. if not keep them in divx and depending on your settings you can store, decent looking ones at say, two moviez per cdr.
If not just watch them on ur tv or back them up to vhs.
If they are not worth using a cdr dont. but some dvd rippz you may do will retain great quality.

A decent video card with tv out e.g. ati, matrox, do not need to reboot to enable tv out.

another thought:
http://www.vcdhelp.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?topic=60144&forum=5

ZooTer

[Elchknie]

mike144k:

the new kyro-drivers eliminate the tv-out-reboot-problem. (assuming u have a Hercules 4500). so download them.

-Elchknie

[legman]

Use a p2-500 or better and the hollywood plus mpeg decoder card with the divxplus application. It works very very well.
You get great dvd/vcd/svcd/xsvcd playback with card decoding and after adding the dvixplus application you can watch avis (any codec you have installed), mov files and more.
Cost- about 70 bucks
Next buy the wireless 2.4 ghz a/v unit at radio shack. Now you can send the siginal to any tv in your house with perfect vid and sound..with no wires at all.

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[mike144k]

Well I can't find any new drivers, do you have a link? Yes it is a Hercules 4500 Tv-out running under Windows 2000 Pro.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Mike

[buzzinhornets]

I have a ATI RageFuryPro VIVO 32mb, and for some divx, the quality is great, for example a copy of "American Geography X" starring Edward Borton, taken from Morpheus, was wicked when I recorded it to my VCR thru my tv-out... although the sound was kinda shotty. For other divx, the quality is so-so.

But I agree that it is a lot of trouble to make VCD, considering MPEG conversion takes soooooooooooooooooo long.