HD-PVR playback on a gforce 7600gs

[tvmaster2]

Should I expect this card to playback HD PVR recorded content smoothly? At the moment, it doesn't look like smooth, 30fps playback. Processor is a dual pentium 945D with an Asus P5B board. Video memory is 256 on the card. I wasn't expecting smooth 1920x1080. I tired different apps (TotalMedia Extreme - Windows media player and Sage, but with varrying degrees of the same mildly sturring video

[paulbeers]

Originally Posted by tvmaster2

Should I expect this card to playback HD PVR recorded content smoothly? At the moment, it doesn't look like smooth, 30fps playback. Processor is a dual pentium 945D with an Asus P5B board. Video memory is 256 on the card. I wasn't expecting smooth 1920x1080. I tired different apps (TotalMedia Extreme - Windows media player and Sage, but with varrying degrees of the same mildly sturring video

The 7XXX series of Nvidia cards does not have full h.264 decoding. Only ATI 2xxx+ series and Nvidia 8XXX+ video cards do. So in answer to your question: No. This is why all the posts recommend current series video cards (Nvidia 9XXX and ATI 4XXX). You could have done a search on google or these forums for this information.

Also, without full h.264 decoding, a pentium 945D could not handle software decoding. it is just not powerful enough. You would need a Core2Duo or a decent AMD dual core.

[tvmaster2]

Originally Posted by paulbeers

The 7XXX series of Nvidia cards does not have full h.264 decoding. Only ATI 2xxx+ series and Nvidia 8XXX+ video cards do. So in answer to your question: No. This is why all the posts recommend current series video cards (Nvidia 9XXX and ATI 4XXX). You could have done a search on google or these forums for this information.

Also, without full h.264 decoding, a pentium 945D could not handle software decoding. it is just not powerful enough. You would need a Core2Duo or a decent AMD dual core.

thanks - I did a search for gforce 7600 and came up with one post. It didn't answer the question regarding HD, but you did, and more. Thanks again.