Playing full HD 1080 scale videos on PC

[dutch_paki]

Re: Playing full HD 1080 scale videos on PC

@WitchDr

Archaic specs now.

Athlon XP-3000 Barton (400 Mhz FSB), 2 GB PC 3500 DDR RAM, Sapphire X1650 pro (256 MB GDDR3), Windows-XP SP2 (OEM)

Software I use is ALTDVB 2.2

I have captured the clips in full 1080p resolution as well without any problem.

I went through some article on Anandtech or Howardforum where they were mentioning the inability of the current generation graphics card to render graphics at full HDTV resolution. I was a bit surprised to read that knowing that I can display it on my screens. However, rendering game graphics is much more processor consuming than decoding video.

I have found it. Your videocard has a HDCP chip onboard.
I never knew some of the X1XXX series have hardware support for full HD

[WitchDr]

Re: Playing full HD 1080 scale videos on PC

Off course! All the new cards have support for HDTV. But it was the codec which did the trick for me.

[dutch_paki]

Re: Playing full HD 1080 scale videos on PC

not true! only a few have the hdcp CHIP. :D Check the table I posted before :) The X1650 is an older DX9 card and the 8800 series is a newer model. Yet the x1650 is better at playing HD video. :) Besides that, not all X16XX series have the HDCP chip :D

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Re: Playing full HD 1080 scale videos on PC

how do I know that I'm watchin' a 720 or 1080 movie? Where are the preferences to adjust this?

[dutch_paki]

Re: Playing full HD 1080 scale videos on PC

how do I know that I'm watchin' a 720 or 1080 movie? Where are the preferences to adjust this?

Well the quality difference :D You cant adjust this btw. The source media file has to be 1080i or 1080p

[Samad]

Re: Playing full HD 1080 scale videos on PC

dutch sahi keh raha hai, kabhi kissi aqalmand ki baat maan lia karte haiN

[WitchDr]

Re: Playing full HD 1080 scale videos on PC

not true! only a few have the hdcp CHIP. :D Check the table I posted before :) The X1650 is an older DX9 card and the 8800 series is a newer model. Yet the x1650 is better at playing HD video. :) Besides that, not all X16XX series have the HDCP chip :D

Thanks for the info. That was indeed an eye opener. I knew that all ATI cards having AVIVO technology support 1080p but did not know that nVidia was lacking in this respect. I just read that nVidia implemented this technology (PureVideo HD) in the 8600 and 8500 series cards. It is not even available in 8800!

My older 9600XT was also capable of displaying 780p/1080i HD content without a hitch as well.