Setting up 350 with Sage

[Milkman]

OK, I'm very confused. I think I have my 350 set-up all wrong as I just updated my video card and processor and it didn't seem to do a lick. Could somebody give me an idea on how to hook these up? I have a Samsung DLP a Haupagge 350 card. The computer is connected to the DVI port.

I know I want to Hardware encode...do I want to use the S-Video out in order to do that.

I would also like to resize using ffdshow...is that possible?

Thanks. You know I thought I had this licked and now I'm lost, just like that.

Chris

[Hector]

I have a pvr-350 but I don't quite understand your question.

The 350 does hardware encoding of the source you hook into it. Where is your source coming from?

There are some very smart people here, maybe you if you lay your problem a little more clearly someone can help you. Of course it could just be me since I'm not one of them

peace . . .

Originally Posted by Milkman

OK, I'm very confused. I think I have my 350 set-up all wrong as I just updated my video card and processor and it didn't seem to do a lick. Could somebody give me an idea on how to hook these up? I have a Samsung DLP a Haupagge 350 card. The computer is connected to the DVI port.

I know I want to Hardware encode...do I want to use the S-Video out in order to do that.

I would also like to resize using ffdshow...is that possible?

Thanks. You know I thought I had this licked and now I'm lost, just like that.

Chris

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by Milkman

OK, I'm very confused. I think I have my 350 set-up all wrong as I just updated my video card and processor and it didn't seem to do a lick.

What did you upgrade to?

Could somebody give me an idea on how to hook these up? I have a Samsung DLP a Haupagge 350 card. The computer is connected to the DVI port.

Well you aren't using the HW decoder on the 350 (you are using the encoder though) and IMO you don't want to be using the 350's HW decoder on an HDTV.

I know I want to Hardware encode...do I want to use the S-Video out in order to do that.

Do you mean encode or decode? Because you always use the HW encoder (there's not really any way to bypass that), but you aren't using the HW decoder right now. To use that you would have to hook up to the S-Video OUTPUT, but like I said, IMO you don't want to do that with an HDTV.

I would also like to resize using ffdshow...is that possible?

Not if you use the 350's decoder, otherwise yes, it's possible, althought I personally have doubts as to how beneficial that is.

[Milkman]

I have a Gigabyte 6800 video card.

I guess to get the best visual quality with my equipment how would I set it up. Though after fooling around alot I think I have it. After I selected the use Hardware decoding under Sage it seemed to improve alot. Stanger, what settings do you have and also what are you using on your video card the default settings for AA and AF or something else. I've been all over and can't seem to find where they say to set this up at.

Thanks

Chris

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by Milkman

After I selected the use Hardware decoding under Sage it seemed to improve alot.

Well if you aren't using the S-Video output of your 350 then "use Hardware decoding" will have no effect.

As for my settings, the best I've found so far are:
Resolution of 1776x1000i
nVidia decoder pack 1.00.58 in DXVA mode (Hardware accelleration enabled)
Deinterlace control - Smart
Deinterlace method - VMR Pixel Adaptive
VMR9 renderer
And I think I have AA set to 2xQ and Aniso set to 16x.

[Milkman]

I'll give them a try and see how they look.

You know it's funny. I'm not using the S-Video out, but I could have swore that the picture looked better when I enabled the "use Hardware decoding" setting in Sage. It didn't make any sense to me, but heh if it works don't fix it.

I tried the settings. For Hardware enabled do you mean in the Nvidia decoder settings or in Sage...I think under advanced.

Also, I couldn't find VMR pixel adaptive in the Nvidia settings...where do they hide that?


Chris

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by Milkman

I tried the settings. For Hardware enabled do you mean in the Nvidia decoder settings or in Sage...I think under advanced.

I mean in the nVidia settings.

Also, I couldn't find VMR pixel adaptive in the Nvidia settings...where do they hide that?

I think you have to be running in (or at least connected to) VMR9 to see that option in the deinterlace method.

[Milkman]

I've looked at it and set it as a setting in the Nvidia and still don't see Pixel adaptive. Any thoughts on were it might be?

[stanger89]

Right here: Like I said, you need to be using VMR9 at the momemt to see the option.

[Milkman]

Hmmmm....I'll have to keep trying then. Maybe I'm not setting VMR correctly. I just select VMR in Sage correct?

[stanger89]

Yeah, VMR9 in sage, Enable hardware accelleration in nVDVD, and you need to be playing a file via VMR9 when you access the page.