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Hello, thanks in advance for helping me out with some problems,
I am trying to figure out my best bet for playing xvid and divx movies (avi). We will say that they are back ups for the sake of this forum. From my experience, it is just way to slow of a process to encode all my videos to DVD format to play on a DVD player. I feel I need another method as making DVD?s is just taking way too much time.
I was hoping for some information on a couple of different methods of playing my video files.
The way I would like to do this is with my computer. I am quite confused as to the difference between using a computer to play xvid and divx and using a DVD player that can play xvid and divx burned as data DVD?s.
Why does it take such a fast computer to play these files and yet a simple DVD player can do it so well? When you use a computer you need to use a program that changes the video to HDTV format and out put at 720p or 1080i, is this where all the computations come in? Does a DVD player not need to do the exact same thing? If not, would the quality be really bad in comparison to the computer method where the video is converted to HDTV video?
Does the reason for all the CPU processes have to do with getting the video format to output from the video card in the proper format, as the computer normally would out put to a monitor?
I have an AMD 2400 (1.66 Gig HZ), 512 DDR, GeForce 4 Ti 4200. It sounds like you needed a 2.4 Gig Hz P4 for HDTV processing, anyone know how my setup would fair out? I would like to do 720p and 1080i video hdtv
The other option is to just get a DVD player that plays xvid and divx DVD?s. This comes down to pretty much the same questions as above. Is the video and audio quality of a DVD player playing a data DVD with xvid and divx files up to par with HDTV or the computer method? Would the computer method yield a better result, same result? In my opinion I don?t want to ever need to make another DVD again so if the dvd player method isn?t as good then great. At the same time I may need to get a new computer.
Finally, are there any other components I will need for my computer to do this properly?
Obviously a sounds card with 5.1 or 6.1.
A video card with proper out put?. What out put do I need? I know DVI does not really work and the signal needs to be converted, this get back to my above questions. How do I properly connect my computer to my avr?
Thanks for any help
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