After a *lot* of "clarting" (my wife's choice of words) with resolutions, codecs, tv-outs, you-name-it, I finally used some birthday cash to buy a GeForce 6200 card (to replace my old GF4 MX) and a copy of the Purevideo decoder, and I have to say Wow!
To anyone experiencing the "looking at the TV through cotton wool" effect like I was, this (for me at least) has been the best thing I have ever done - super crisp and smooth picture in MyTV, easily as good if not better than anything I was previously getting from my Sky STB.
On the back of the elation of discovering a whole new life to MediaPortal, the Gods of evening-things-out stuck a hand in and my system (an AOpen XCube EA65II barebones) bluescreened followed very closely (too quickly to read the bluescreen) by a hard reset. After a reboot it went on to do this every ten minutes or so (after an initial 3 hour stint with no problems) leading me to wonder if overheating was the cause . As an SFF case, the components aren't half crammed in there, and the GeForce card only has a heatsink which sites quite close to the CPU cooler.. Certainly when I passed my hand around the back of the machine it was fairly toasty.
I need to confirm that overheating is the problem, but it looks fairly conclusive - anybody have any thoughts on how I might keep the heat down, given that the nature of the case is such that I can't put in any more fans and buying a GeForce with a fan isn't really an option?
To anyone experiencing the "looking at the TV through cotton wool" effect like I was, this (for me at least) has been the best thing I have ever done - super crisp and smooth picture in MyTV, easily as good if not better than anything I was previously getting from my Sky STB.
On the back of the elation of discovering a whole new life to MediaPortal, the Gods of evening-things-out stuck a hand in and my system (an AOpen XCube EA65II barebones) bluescreened followed very closely (too quickly to read the bluescreen) by a hard reset. After a reboot it went on to do this every ten minutes or so (after an initial 3 hour stint with no problems) leading me to wonder if overheating was the cause . As an SFF case, the components aren't half crammed in there, and the GeForce card only has a heatsink which sites quite close to the CPU cooler.. Certainly when I passed my hand around the back of the machine it was fairly toasty.
I need to confirm that overheating is the problem, but it looks fairly conclusive - anybody have any thoughts on how I might keep the heat down, given that the nature of the case is such that I can't put in any more fans and buying a GeForce with a fan isn't really an option?