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Hi again,

I have some questions concerning the required hardware for smooth play of DVB-S and DVB-S2.
I'm using a TBS6980 in a Windows Vista Home Premium x64 system with the following system specifications:
CPU: AMD Athlon 2 X2 240e
Motherboard: Asus M4A78
Memory: 2Gb
Videocard: Onboard HD4200 with 128 MB shared memory
Software: DVBLink TVSource & networkpack

TV viewing is far from perfect. Deinterlacing effects and ghosting even in DVB-S channels. Am I using wrong codecs or are my system specs to low?

The website states:

For DVB-S:
1GHz CPU or above
256MB RAM or above
Graphic Card with at least 16MB RAM
For DVB-S2 HDTV:
3.0 GHz CPU or above, Dualcore CPU
1GB RAM or Above
Graphic Card with at Least 64MB RAM

Can someone extplain the CPU specs?
3 Ghz, dualcore... does that mean 2x 3Ghz?? In that case my AMD Athlon 2 X2 240e isn't enough...

Hi
My computer is lower than you,but it can play smoothly ,so i think it maybe you can try other codecs or reinstall your system.

hi, i have Gigabyte AMD785GT-UD3H with the same build-in Radeon HD 4200 video and no problems. so, i share the same opinion as Steven - there has to be something wrong with your video codecs and/or video card drivers. BTW, the specifications on the website are in case your video card doesn't have hardware video acceleration, which is not the case with your Radeon HD 4200, because it has UVD (Unified Video Decoder) hardware video acceleration.

steven Wrote:Hi
My computer is lower than you,but it can play smoothly ,so i think it maybe you can try other codecs or reinstall your system.

Could you advise me what kind of codec(s) to use?

Hi Volture
ffdshow and VLC maybe a good choice for you.

steven Wrote:Hi Volture
ffdshow and VLC maybe a good choice for you.

Hi Steven,

I already use vlc on the system to check the channels in TVscource. I also use SAF 5.x for Mediaportal on the same system, that includes ffdshow. Also installed Cyberlink Powerdvd and a trail version of Elecard codecs (MPEG2 and AVC), but stil nog change in video or tv playback. Only under Mediaportal are de right codecs used. I assume that it is because of the use of MPC in Mediaportal

If I run fddshow configuration, I can't find my installed codecs in de menu Codecs. Please help....

hi, which channels you're trying to watch (just a few as example is quite enough)? i'm asking, because for example BBC HD is using MBAFF interlacing and AFAIK still not all software video codecs support that, but in any case PowerDVD codec supports it for sure.

I watch mostly Canal Digitaal (Dutch provider) channels. Included in my subscription are RTL4, MTV NL, Discovery Channel. Sometimes I watch german channels, like RTL Television and Sat 1.

I haven't yet tried BBC.

Volture Wrote:I watch mostly Canal Digitaal (Dutch provider) channels. Included in my subscription are RTL4, MTV NL, Discovery Channel. Sometimes I watch german channels, like RTL Television and Sat 1.

hmm, deinterlacing on RTL and Sat 1 - that's really odd. please, can you make a screenshot and post it here - i just want to see how it looks.

I haven't yet had the time to place the screenshots online. I did however check my CPU capacity when watching SD or HD content through Vista Media Center. I noticed that my dual core was @ 90%+ both times, for both cores. It looks like there is no hardware accelleration used in the decompression of the MPEG2 of MPEG4 streams.

Am I right? If so, how do I solve this?