People,<br>Thanks for all the information provided in this thread. I purchased an HVR-1200 capture card and noticed that my nvidia 7200 video card playing TV1, and TV2 without pausing. However TV3 was a different story .. frequent pauses - once every 4-5 seconds. I am aware that 8xxx cards onwards support VDPAU. I have a CRT TV that supports 1080i on its component inputs. I do see the difference in picture quality on the component input between a DVB-S and DVB-T recording/livetv. I am loathed to purchase another TV although they are cheap-as-chips these days. Picking up a used card or an nvidia 8400GS silent new (for $50) seems like the answer. The newer cards appear to have dropped support for component video out in the extensive search I have done.<br>
<br>Sincerely,<br>Rama<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Graeme Woollett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:g.woollett@irl.cri.nz">g.woollett@irl.cri.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Most but not all :) I have a HP/Compaq small form factor box which has<br>
> a P4 and a PCIe 16 slot. It has a 8400 card in it and will play 1080p<br>
> h264 without breaking sweat.<br>
><br>
><br>
</div>Just not at 1080i (TV3) with nice de-interlacing.<br>
<br>
One thing that did catch me out was coupling a newer 9600GT board with<br>
an older m/b. It posted but didn't output anything (at all) to the<br>
monitor.<br>
This happened on two different older (AMD) main boards. I thought that<br>
PCI-E 2.0 was supposed to be backward compatible with version 1.0x<br>
m/b's. Anyway I ended up having to buy a new m/b as well!<br>
<br>
So in my experience at least the current PCI-E cards may not work in a<br>
computer as old as you mentioned.<br>
<br>
Nevertheless if he wants a VDPAU card with component analog and enough<br>
grunt to do h264 2x HW de-interlacing there are 8600GT's on Trademe<br>
ranging from $50-80.<br>
<br>
--<br>
<font color="#888888">Graeme<br>
</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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