cant play anything but mpg

[pboodi]

Originally Posted by davephan

Pboodi,

You need a Hauppauge MVP if you want to playback compressed video formats. The PVR 350 will only playback MPEG2 files. I compress most of my video from MPEG2 to Xvid AVI. The files are 20% of the original size and still look good. When I started using video compression, I had to playback my AVI files on my computer screen, since my PVR 350 can't play them back. I bought one MVP, and it works great to playback compressed video. I later bought a second MVP because I got tired of moving the MVP around the house.

How fast is the CPU? I had an Athlon XP+ 2800, which is barely fast enough to playback the AVI files without stuttering. Once in awhile the video would stutter. When my Athlon XP+ 2800 system died, I had to switch to an older Athlon XP+ 2100, which had severe AVI playback stuttering problems.

My old XP+ 2800 had to transcode MPEG2 files into Xvid AVI files during off hours (to avoid stuttering playback), or I transcoded video with an older second computer. The newer 3.0 gig dual core system can playback compressed video and transcode MPEG2 into Xvid AVI files at the same time, with no playback problems.

So, compressing video all boils down to needing a faster CPU to save on disk space. You also need that better CPU if you want to playback files that someone else already compressed.


Dave

Dave: Thank you for your response. Sorry for the delay. Most of my files are xvid or avi, I wasnt aware that I needed a MVP for playback. I upgraded my system and upgraded Sage because I wanted to be up to date I wasnt aware I needed a new happpauge too!

Thanks for the tip

pboodi