Vista or XP? (1 Viewer)

[robyf]

Tried to find the answer on the forum with a search but no luck...

My current installation is windows xp pro + TVE3. It works very well but picture quality with dvb-s is not so high and even dvd playback is not fluid in comparison with a standalone dvd player (but this is also true with powerdvd so no mediaportal complain).

I've heard that vista (evr) performs better in term of picture quality and smoothness of playback. Is this true? Is it worth the upgrade?

Thanks

 

[Spragleknas]

See: https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...t-53/xp-vista-known-issues-mediaportal-36529/
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...vista-vs-xp-please-post-your-pros-cons-31883/

 

[Lotsofjazz]

Having a Dual Core processor, overall Vista should work better, but I must say I have lots of problems since last week all of a sudden SDTV doesnt play correctly anymore. Seems to be a codec issue icw some Vista updates, but I hope that is temporary and will be solved soon.

Could also be a Graphics card issue that you have stuttering playback.. maybe a good idea to turn off Hardware acceleration and try software decoding. I had it with playback of HD material, with HW acceleration I had a lot of stutters and blocking, when I turned to software decoding, it was solved, just because my Graphics card is not as good as it should be..

lots

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Stuttering could well be hardware\driver related, even with my X2 proccessor and a 7900GS have had stuttering if nvidia drivers have not updated correctly (assume this also applies to ATI).