Fullstream with ATI9000, maybe ATI has forgotten it, but I have not!

[Kvochur]

Hi to all, this is my first post.

Eight months ago I bought an ATI Radeon 9000.
I needed a VGA card for 2D and DVDs, DivX videos, MPEGs... (I have a 2th PC under my TV, only for video playing)...for this use I have chosen the 9000 instead of 7000 because the publicized FULLSTREAM feature.
When I bought the video card, the fullstream was supported only by a special version of Realplayer , but I was confident for better future support.

There was much hipe about future divx support, future more real time effects than deblocking etc etc...

Now, seem that 9000's fullstream features bas been forgotten.

ATI's drivers claims to support Fullstream in DivX player...but only
for 9500/9600/9700/9800 series (DX9 video cards) !
So has ATI forgotten 9000's users ? Do they have publicized an inesistent
feature ? If I had know this, I would saved my money...

Or will it be supported later ? BUT is it acceptable wait more than EIGHT
MONTHS to have all functions enabled ?

I wrote to ATI, but I have not obtained any response... :disgust:
Any suggestion ?

Thanks to all, and sorry for my bad english

 

[Corporate Thug]

bah, just use the newest drivers

 

[JeremiahTheGreat]

Fullsteam is useless for divx. It looks worst compared to normal, although it does use less CPU time. But when we're running @ 2Ghz ++, its a moot point.

 

[rbV5]

The divx fullstream is handy for high resolution divx files, up to 50% drop in CPU use. I've tested several of my encodings from HD material, and I'm not seeing a drop in PQ with quality encodings.

I wouldn't expect any fullstream divx support for the r200, maybe WMV support? I would expect more fullstream support, but probably only on VPU's that support video shaders. Hardware video acceleration will be more important with higher resolution video, even powerful rigs struggle with HD in software.
If you bought your card for fullstream support, you bought it for Realplayer fullstream support. If not, looks like you bought it for the wrong reason unfortunately.

 

[Zen0ps]

Its a lot easier to create a DX9 overlay than use the existing hardware based one.

DivX runs ok with fullstream, but at DVD (720x480) type resoluion it does look a little better if you turn on all six levels of post-processing instead of using fullstream. This usually requires a P4 2Ghz or higher processor.

However.. Playing back HDTV (1920x1080) resolution is much better using fullstream as it is impossible to do any CPU based post-processing without dropping frames (Unless you happen to have a P4 8 to 10 Ghz processor in your backpocket)

Fullstream is designed for a future we have not got to yet.

If you are curious

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/content_provider/film/contentshowcase.aspx