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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TimZ" data-source="post: 111298" data-attributes="member: 28782">Hey guys, sorry I haven't been around in a while.  I've been busy ...blah, blah, blah.  My 5500 seems to be working quite well with the configuration settings I came up with using GraphEdt.  I got the aspect ratio thing worked out, when watching a channel I hit the Z (I think that's the key) key to change the AR and MP seems to remember it.  I'm surprised that even though I have the latest windows drivers for my nVidia card, it's not hacking the HDTV playback very well whereas, it played back rather nicely when using MythTV and the latest Linux drivers (same hardware).  I did find that my motherboard was set to 2X AGP instead of 4X (the highest it can go) but, even after fixing that the playback "studders" every couple of seconds.jarrednichol -> I'm not sure what to tell you, I'm no expert here.  I can say that once I ran GraphEdt and got the info for the CaptureCardDefinitions file, the card worked!  It also worked quite well when I was using MythTV using the v4l-dvb drivers.  I did what Paul said to do using the MP setup (not the wizard) and added the capture card.  I could easily scan for channels there (it takes a long time, maybe 5-8 secs per channel) but it worked!I did upgrade the memory to 1GB from 512MB and I found a 2000+ XP processor but still not happy with the results.  I think one of my mistakes is that I've been downloading the nightly SVNs before my system is working the way I want.  I may just do a complete install of XP and MP.  I may try the nVideo CODEC you mentioned to see if that works, other than that, I may just need more horsepower.-tz[EDIT]I was just at the nVidia website checking on that CODEC and I decided to see if there was an updated driver.  The driver I downloaded is the same one on the site and it is suposed to include:[From <a href="http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_93.71.html" target="_blank">http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_93.71.html</a>Release Highlights: WHQL Certified. NVIDIA PureVideo™ HD driver with support for the following features: Hardware acceleration of H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2 HD movie formats. Video post-processing image enhancements. Built-in support for HDCP content protection protocol via DVI or HDMI connectors. Please visit the NVIDIA PureVideo website for more information on building a PureVideo HD system. Includes the new NVIDIA Control Panel. Please visit the NVIDIA Control Panel website for more information. Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0c and OpenGL® 2.0 support For a full list of fixes issues, please view the release notes. So it looks like I should have the PureVideo driver.[/EDIT]</blockquote>

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