video + text overlay

[unfalliblekrutch]

I have recently become responsible for the projection system for worship at church. Basically, we use a program called easyworship, which, from what I can tell uses DirectX to display video files (mpg, etc) fullscreen with text overlayed on top of the video file.

On a laptop with athlon xp 2500+ and a igp320m (basically a 7000 with shared ram), it lags(on 800x600) any time I try to transition the text.

Basically, we have another laptop with a slightly more powerful GPU (xpress200m), but it will be a pain to transfer the software, etc to that computer. My question is, would a faster GPU help speed up things since afaik, this is 2d rendereing? Or is the problem in the CPU speed?

 

[unfalliblekrutch]

ttt

anyone know?

 

[rbV5]

It probably depends on your application, but the older card using overlay mixer to display text over the video using slower/poorer color-keying, where if it were to use the newer Video Mixing Renderer it uses much better/faster alpha blending. The Xpress200m supports DX9 and Video mixing render 9 and should give better performance in either case, but it would probably depend on the software. The 2500m is a fairly robust processor.