It occurred to me to just play the DVD in my computer. It looks no better. So I can't say that it's the file on my computer that is inferior or that Theater Tek is lacking. I have only heard good things about Theater Tek so I don't question that. Maybe the 6100 chip set? Maybe I just need more video processing?
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Theater Tek plus what to make picture look good?
What I'm trying to do:
I want to (have) ripped some of my favorite music videos off my DVDs and put them on my hard drive. I want to make a video juke box. This way I can get rid of the tracks I do not like. I also want to add some trailers and maybe some cartoons so I can show them before the main event. I do not want to burn the main event DVDs. I'll just use the discs.
When I play the videos back on my computer monitor set to 1680 x 1050, the image does not look as good as I would expect, when maximized. It looks ok when it is a small window but I guess that makes sense since it's so small. The image is not studdering or doing anthing else "bad" other than it just doesn't look that crisp. I'm afraid when I hook this up to my PJ (InFocus 7200, 720p) I will still be disappointed.
Do I need to add other software? I see people that use ffdshow , NVIDIA Pure Video and some others.
My computer is an AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+, mother board is Gigabyte GA-M55plus-S3g with onboard NVIDIA 6100, seagate 300G SATA HD, 2G Dual channel RAM. Running XP SP2.
Any advice will be greatly appreciated. My free trials are about to expire so I'd like to get something working before I have to buy software.
Thanks,
Todd
I want to (have) ripped some of my favorite music videos off my DVDs and put them on my hard drive. I want to make a video juke box. This way I can get rid of the tracks I do not like. I also want to add some trailers and maybe some cartoons so I can show them before the main event. I do not want to burn the main event DVDs. I'll just use the discs.
When I play the videos back on my computer monitor set to 1680 x 1050, the image does not look as good as I would expect, when maximized. It looks ok when it is a small window but I guess that makes sense since it's so small. The image is not studdering or doing anthing else "bad" other than it just doesn't look that crisp. I'm afraid when I hook this up to my PJ (InFocus 7200, 720p) I will still be disappointed.
Do I need to add other software? I see people that use ffdshow , NVIDIA Pure Video and some others.
My computer is an AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+, mother board is Gigabyte GA-M55plus-S3g with onboard NVIDIA 6100, seagate 300G SATA HD, 2G Dual channel RAM. Running XP SP2.
Any advice will be greatly appreciated. My free trials are about to expire so I'd like to get something working before I have to buy software.
Thanks,
Todd
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OK, I moved the computer into the theater and hooked it up to the PJ. Picture looks fine. So there's something up with my computer monitor - maybe that's normal?
Now I'd like to know why I need ffdshow or NVIDIA Pure Video.
Now I'd like to know why I need ffdshow or NVIDIA Pure Video.
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If you are using TheaterTek, you've got the nvidia pure video decoder...it comes with it. You don't really need ffdshow unless you want to do post processing of the image. If it looks good now, you don't need it.
| Originally Posted by nowandthen Now I'd like to know why I need ffdshow or NVIDIA Pure Video. |
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