Hello,
I recently purchased a Radeon 8500LE card after noting the virtually unanimous agreement here that it would be the best card for TV-OUT. I finally got the whole system put together, got the TV-OUT set up, and was awestruck by the quality of picture on my TV. I could read most text and, for the most part, use the TV as my sole monitor, which was what I had hoped. So I popped in a DVD. Once again, I was shocked by the picture quality. "Can't wait till I get my Soundblaster Live 5.1 Platinum so I can have digital optical 5.1 output instead of this crappy headphone jack-to-RCA cable I have now," I thought.
Then came the thing I really built this system for...DivX. I opened a DivX movie, sat back with excitement, and then shriveled inside as the display showed...nothing. The PC screen still outputted perfectly, but the space where the video should have been was a black box. I tried several applications, and none would play AVI files that could be shown on the TV screen. MPEG worked great, but avi and divx just showed blank, black rectangles instead of a picture. I realize that the Radeon does not have onboard DivX decoding, but I assumed it would just output the movie as it does on a monitor.
Others have talked about playing DivX on their TV's, and I was wondering if anyone knew what might be my problem. Is there a setting I need to change somewhere? I am eagerly awaiting the ability to watch my DivX movies on a 36" screen rather than a 17" monitor, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Hegemon
P.S. (Also, I was wondering if anyone might know how to boot up to TV-OUT with a Radeon 8500LE. I am using the Catalyst drivers. I can boot up fine, but had to set up a hotkey to switch to TV-OUT rather than monitor output because it always boots to monitor output by default, even when only the s-video cable is attached. It usually takes a couple switches back and forth between default and tv ouput using hotkeys before the screen shows on my tv. This does not make tv-out impossible, just a hassle, and I wondered if anyone might know how I can get the thing to boot to TV by default.)
I recently purchased a Radeon 8500LE card after noting the virtually unanimous agreement here that it would be the best card for TV-OUT. I finally got the whole system put together, got the TV-OUT set up, and was awestruck by the quality of picture on my TV. I could read most text and, for the most part, use the TV as my sole monitor, which was what I had hoped. So I popped in a DVD. Once again, I was shocked by the picture quality. "Can't wait till I get my Soundblaster Live 5.1 Platinum so I can have digital optical 5.1 output instead of this crappy headphone jack-to-RCA cable I have now," I thought.
Then came the thing I really built this system for...DivX. I opened a DivX movie, sat back with excitement, and then shriveled inside as the display showed...nothing. The PC screen still outputted perfectly, but the space where the video should have been was a black box. I tried several applications, and none would play AVI files that could be shown on the TV screen. MPEG worked great, but avi and divx just showed blank, black rectangles instead of a picture. I realize that the Radeon does not have onboard DivX decoding, but I assumed it would just output the movie as it does on a monitor.
Others have talked about playing DivX on their TV's, and I was wondering if anyone knew what might be my problem. Is there a setting I need to change somewhere? I am eagerly awaiting the ability to watch my DivX movies on a 36" screen rather than a 17" monitor, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Hegemon
P.S. (Also, I was wondering if anyone might know how to boot up to TV-OUT with a Radeon 8500LE. I am using the Catalyst drivers. I can boot up fine, but had to set up a hotkey to switch to TV-OUT rather than monitor output because it always boots to monitor output by default, even when only the s-video cable is attached. It usually takes a couple switches back and forth between default and tv ouput using hotkeys before the screen shows on my tv. This does not make tv-out impossible, just a hassle, and I wondered if anyone might know how I can get the thing to boot to TV by default.)
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