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Rsmith: I have an 8800GTX which I'm not going to part with for some time. So does anyone know if it's posible to add in an 8400GS or similar and use this for the Purevideo HD 3 capability only?
My PC can decode TV3 HD ok, but i wouldnt call it super smooth, and it's using 40% CPU.
CPU: AMD 5900x | RAM: GSKILL Trident Z Neo RGB F4-3600C16D-32GTZNC-32-GB | MB: Asus X570-E | GFX: EVGA FTW3 Ultra RTX 3080Ti| Monitor: LG 27GL850-B 2560x1440
Quic: https://account.quic.nz/refer/473833 R473833EQKIBX
smbunn: I am getting a ATI Radeon 2400 HD AGP card. $115 will be well spent if it works, which according to the specifications it should do. A few US reviews of it decoding H.264 said it was identical in speed to the HD 3850 and twice as fast as the Nvidia 8800GTS. It also said the noise reduction and de-interlacing were far superior to Nvidia.
I will let you know if this card does the trick.
CPU: AMD 5900x | RAM: GSKILL Trident Z Neo RGB F4-3600C16D-32GTZNC-32-GB | MB: Asus X570-E | GFX: EVGA FTW3 Ultra RTX 3080Ti| Monitor: LG 27GL850-B 2560x1440
Quic: https://account.quic.nz/refer/473833 R473833EQKIBX
Saphire Radeon 2400 HD Pro AGP was installed last night.
Note this is an AGP card and not the PCI-e version.
I had two stored .ts files, one from TV3 Bones a full HD at 1080i and this played perfectly under PowerDVD 8 Ultra at less than 5% CPU on my core 2 duo 1.6Ghz CPU. Info on the stream showed it was running at about 10MB/s with the AAC audio stream now supported by PowerDVD. The radeon drivers showed the GPU was running at about 40%.
I played back a TV One 720p stream also perfectly at 5% CPU and 24% GPU. It has a stream of about 6 MB/s.
Then tried Media Portal and it plays TV 3, C4 and Freeview | HD perfectly. It will not play TV One, TV 2, TV 6 or TV 7, just lots of green blocks and then my computer BSODs with "problem with driver" message and a reboot.
Could be a long weekend sorting this out!
Took a little work but I can now tell you that AGP and HD TV does work! And the card is only $120 inc GST from Computer Lounge.
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