Hi,
I have a Matrox G400 which had excellent quality TV-out for watching
avi's, etc.
I do occasionally play games and have noticed the G400 struggling on
anything decent.
Thus this prompted me to test a Hercules 9800SE AIW. As this is supposed
to be a multimedia card with both TV in & out via the Rage Theater 200
chip I expected good things. The gaming is exceptionally fast, especially
when softmodded to a 9800 Pro.
However, when viewing an avi the picture looks stretched horizontally.
Using all the adjustments available I can do nothing to correct this
problem to my satisfaction. It seems that adjusting the vertical size of
the picture (which would fix this) does nothing. I can reduce the
horizontal width of the TV picture to correct the aspect ratio, but then I
am left with black gaps on both the left and right of the image.
I used to have a Matrox G400 which had excellent quality TV-out.
However, it had two problems; 1) lost the left and right edges of the
picture 2) very jerky playing NTSC clips. Both of these could be fixed
with the DivXG400 filter (http://www.tac.ee/~prr/videoutils/divxg400.html).
The latter problem requiring manual intervention for each change of format
which was tedious.
The DivXG400 fix above was a Directshow filter which effectively changed
the aspect ratio of the frame. Does any other filter exist which would
allow me to correct the poor frame format this AIW is generating? I've
tried the DivXG400 filter with the AIW, but this does not provide the
vertical frame size alteration that's needed.
Am I missing something here or is it just not possible to get correct
output on a PAL TV? Maybe it's also not possible on NTSC, but I'm assuming
that must be correct or how can they seriously call this a multimedia
card? I'm thinking they mightn't've bothered getting it right on PAL.
Many thanks.
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