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Continuing from the topic I started a while ago, I gave my system a little boost by performing some minor upgrades.

Altough I loved Matrox, I had to give up my Matrox P650 (a cut down version of the Parhelia) for an NVIDIA 6800GT mainly due to the lack of DirectX 9 support, a bug in TV-OUT and also just wanted a general upgrade.

A while ago, I sucessfully configured my CyberLink codec to operate in the best de-interlacing mode in 3rd party applications such as Media Portal and Windows Media Player thanks to a previous poster in this topic.

When I had the Matrox P650, I had all sorts of symptoms such as poor performance, choppy playback with OSD on screen in overlay mode, poor compatability, lack of VMR9, aspect ratio bugs and many other symptoms.

Having upgraded my aging Matrox P650 64MB to an NVIDIA 6800GT 256MB with a Zalman CF-900-CU, the NVIDIA made a real difference in overall! MediaPortal now runs smoothly in VMR9 mode with many other issues fixed.

Note that I use my computer, which I have MediaPortal installed for both desktop use and a HTPC. I have a standard TV set hooked up to the S-Video output of the NVIDIA as well as a computer monitor on the VGA output.

<blockquote data-quote="jackelectronics" data-source="post: 61987" data-attributes="member: 13430">Continuing from the topic I started a while ago, I gave my system a little boost by performing some minor upgrades.Altough I loved Matrox, I had to give up my Matrox P650 (a cut down version of the Parhelia) for an NVIDIA 6800GT mainly due to the lack of DirectX 9 support, a bug in TV-OUT and also just wanted a general upgrade.A while ago, I sucessfully configured my CyberLink codec to operate in the best de-interlacing mode in 3rd party applications such as Media Portal and Windows Media Player thanks to a previous poster in this topic.When I had the Matrox P650, I had all sorts of symptoms such as poor performance, choppy playback with OSD on screen in overlay mode, poor compatability, lack of VMR9, aspect ratio bugs and many other symptoms.Having upgraded my aging Matrox P650 64MB to an NVIDIA 6800GT 256MB with a Zalman CF-900-CU, the NVIDIA made a real difference in overall! MediaPortal now runs smoothly in VMR9 mode with many other issues fixed.Note that I use my computer, which I have MediaPortal installed for both desktop use and a HTPC. I have a standard TV set hooked up to the S-Video output of the NVIDIA as well as a computer monitor on the VGA output.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jackelectronics, post: 61987, member: 13430"] Continuing from the topic I started a while ago, I gave my system a little boost by performing some minor upgrades. Altough I loved Matrox, I had to give up my Matrox P650 (a cut down version of the Parhelia) for an NVIDIA 6800GT mainly due to the lack of DirectX 9 support, a bug in TV-OUT and also just wanted a general upgrade. A while ago, I sucessfully configured my CyberLink codec to operate in the best de-interlacing mode in 3rd party applications such as Media Portal and Windows Media Player thanks to a previous poster in this topic. When I had the Matrox P650, I had all sorts of symptoms such as poor performance, choppy playback with OSD on screen in overlay mode, poor compatability, lack of VMR9, aspect ratio bugs and many other symptoms. Having upgraded my aging Matrox P650 64MB to an NVIDIA 6800GT 256MB with a Zalman CF-900-CU, the NVIDIA made a real difference in overall! MediaPortal now runs smoothly in VMR9 mode with many other issues fixed. Note that I use my computer, which I have MediaPortal installed for both desktop use and a HTPC. I have a standard TV set hooked up to the S-Video output of the NVIDIA as well as a computer monitor on the VGA output. [/QUOTE]