What 3D game card has best fullscreen S-video from Gamecube

[cygnusprime]

Hi this is my first post,

I have a Leadtek A350 Ultra TDH wich means its a VIVO card. The card is their best 3D card, based on the nvidia FX5900 chipset and has 256mb of DDR and a core clock of 450mhz and DDR speed of 850mhz. The card has one S-video in and one Composite video in and also outputs with the same types.

This card cost me $470 and the gamecube looks blurry at fullscreen through leadteks PVR software. I am using the S-video input too. I ran the same gamecube cable into a $150 Apex TV with S-video and the picture clarity increased dramatically. Is there any nvidia FX5900 based cards from other manufacturers that are better for this? How does the radeon 9800 all-in-wonder look at fullscreen with a console like gamecube connected?

[Dr_Layne]

The video card does not use 3d processing for video inputs. Game systems outputs are designed for TV not computer monitor resulotions.

Steve

[Metaluna]

Hi this is my first post,

I have a Leadtek A350 Ultra TDH wich means its a VIVO card. The card is their best 3D card, based on the nvidia FX5900 chipset and has 256mb of DDR and a core clock of 450mhz and DDR speed of 850mhz. The card has one S-video in and one Composite video in and also outputs with the same types.

I believe most Nvidia-based VIVO boards use a fairly mediocre Philips chip for the VIVO portion of the card (i.e. the graphics processor is not directly involved in the Analog-to-Digital conversion). My Leadtek A280 VIVO was not terribly impressive with its Svideo-in either.

You don't need to get a whole new 3D card just to display S-Video on your PC. A PCI-based video capture card should do fine and cost less than $100. I would look into some of the new cards based on the Conexant CX2388x chip, such as the Asus TV Tuner and the ATI TV Wonder Pro. There is also the ATI All-in-Wonder VE which uses the same capture hardware as the All-In-Wonder 9800 but is a PCI card and has a low-end 3D chip (the Radeon 7500), so you could even use it as the second display in a dual-head setup. It's a little more expensive than the CX23883 boards though.
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[cygnusprime]

I was going to get the Radeon9800 All-in-wonder Pro, However it doesn't look like it has the Conexant CX2388x hardware. I have heard it uses the Rage Theatre 200 decoder. What is better at a fullscreen the TV Wonder Pro or the AIW 9800?