Poor Video Quality

[SniperDaws]

Wether its a DVD, Divx, Xvid, or Digital TV, the picture quality is just poor, when somone moves on screen its like they are smearing its only faint but its enough to really annoy me as i used to have a 7600GT and cheap tv card and dvd and tv quality was far better.

what setting should i use regarding De-interlacing? its currently on Auto but i have tried a few others but they all look rubbish to be honest.

For dvd playback im using PowerDVD Ultra with hardware video ticked. but i get better picture quality if i untick it.

for Divx/Xvid playback i use WMP 11.

for TV i use the dreaded ATI multimedia tv or PowerCinema 5.


Thanks

 

[Slugbait]

Normally, I would suggest you see the video playback quality screenshot comparisons between nVidia and ATI in MaxPC's Nov '05 edition, page 31. Your card is from that era, and I doubt Avivo would improve quality that much.

However, "smearing" sounds a bit worse. So the following info might be helpful...

- Is this while using XP32 or Vista64?
- Is 64 on a different partition from 32?
- Was Windows a clean install, or did you simply replace your nVidia with an ATI card?

 

[SniperDaws]

im running winXP32 and ive trashed Vista now so no seperate partitions, also i just uninstalled the 7600GT, ran driver cleaner, then installed the ATI card, and as im typing this now im thinking that could be the problem couldnt it?

 

[Slugbait]

Originally posted by: SniperDaws
im running winXP32 and ive trashed Vista now so no seperate partitions, also i just uninstalled the 7600GT, ran driver cleaner, then installed the ATI card, and as im typing this now im thinking that could be the problem couldnt it?

Not likely. Now I'm back to thinking it could be because it's an ATI card, and they didn't excel at video playback quality back when your card was released. Without actually seeing it in action, I don't know if what you are seeing is worse than expected or not...but I think I see your exact issue in screenshots here. Scroll down to the MPEG2 section...the one screenshot to pay particular attention to has the airliner during PowerDVD playback, which shows significant "smearing". Other screenshots show advantage->nVidia.

If this is what you are seeing, it's expected. It's also probably why you get better picture quality by not allowing the card do decoding in hardware, and letting your processor handle it instead.

 

[SniperDaws]

Thats exactly it, oh well im buying a new card after christmas so ill just bide my time until then, Thank you very much for all your info