My new M1330 and video problems

I wasn't sure where to post this particular problem so I am posting it here. I just bought a Dell XPS M1330 with an LED screen, Vista Home Premium, and a Nvidia 8400. I have a couple of movie files that I played on my new laptop and I noticed that the quality of the movies decreased from the viewings on my old desktop. For instance, the default screen size when one first opens up the movie files is smaller on my M1330 than my desktop, and when I enlarge it, the quality of the picture goes down: the background is a little fuzzy and blurred. My old desktop is an old Pentium 4 machine with XP. The movie files are Divx files that are 1.4GB each. Shouldn't a new laptop outperform my old desktop? I don't know if it's the new LED screen, the new OS, or the video card (I heard there were driver problems with the Nvidia 8000 line). Can anyone offer any remedies to this particular problem of mine?

 

Um, it sounds like your resolution is a little higher on the M1330 which is why the videos open up smaller(or it could be the smaller screen size). It's probably the Divx compression that you are noticing now. It might be easier to see on a higher resolution machine. I've noticed that Divx movies are fine if you want to play them on a low resolution SDTV, but on a computer they look like ****, but I just deal.

What was your resolution on your old machine?

 

divx and xvid are fine for analog displays, but far from ideal on HD screens. it doesn't have anything to do with the performance of the pc...

 

My resolution on my desktop was 1152 by 864. My laptop is around 1200 by 800.

Divx compression?

 

so there's nothing i can do? i mean, the quality gets quite unbearable at times.

 

HD screens will expose the shortcomings of the divx format. you have to either deal with it or use a higher quality video format than divx

 

what if i bought this LCD monitor and plugged it into my laptop?

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-226BW...80-8610502?ie=UTF8&s=pc&qid=1187197366&sr=1-1

 

it'll be the same thing on an external monitor. it's a software issue, not hardware, don't u get it?

 

Encode your DVDs at higher resolution, upconvert them. Download H.264 rather than standard XviD

 

So all of my porn clips are gonna look blurry? I was so used to them being blurry only after a certain point.

Hmmm Ill have to check out the HDMI connection for that then...


But...aaaaah!!! This is so frustrating now.

Exactly how blurry???

 

Wow... that was a little TMI, but funny. Your best source of frustration relief is causing the frustration. haha.

 

thats funny o well that why you get hd 1080p x rated clips not just your lame stuff lol JK its only about 10gb a 5 minute video lol

 

Dont understand TMI DirectGrl and...what colour is that laptop yr getting again? lol

Just makin some fun...

 

I've never heard of H.264

 

TMI - Too Much Information, which I completely concur with in this case. It won't be blurry if you have a decent quality show/movie/video.

H.264 is a codec commonly use for encoding HD content.

 

Thanks Chuck

 

Were all the same down in the deep recesses of our minds you know that dont you Directgrl. Many can colour it pretty and sweet which gives us the image of the librarian or the 'nice girl' as in your picture, but down deep....our carnal thoughts run back way passed the callous that society needs to see.

In everyone there is that moment when the smile fades and its just....pure.

Now thats TMI....but rings of truth.

 

whooopa8: Are these personal videos or are you torrenting some movies? I know that divx is trying to bill their main purpose to be a format to compete with youtube style streaming video, but I've only used it for decoding movies that I've downloaded. Otherwise, I think Divx sucks.

 

these are movies i've dled from torrent sights, yes. if divx sucks, i'm out of luck, because almost all the movie torrents out there are in divx format.

 

would my problem have anything to do with Digital Rights Management installed on Vista?

 

do u have this prob when you're watching videos online e.g. those streaming kinds from youtube?

this doesn't happen to dvd movies right?

it only happens to videos encoded in divx format then?

 

are they 1.4G for 1.5 hour of play? That is High Resolution divx files. They should be pretty ok. Ofcourse you cant compare them against x264/h262 files

Most of the times there are 3 kinds of compression when using torrents (especially the tv show torrents)

normal xvids: 350MB/45min = these sucks on my Full HD TV
HR xvids: 700MB/45min = these are way better (sometimes even better then my normal tv broadcast..)
x264 matroska files: 1.1G/45min= these are really good (way better then my normal tv broadcast)

ofcourse all these series are coming from usa HD broadcast stations..

For movies you should try to get the 8GB/h264 files, Those are rips from real hd content. They are really very good quality.. I don't think anybody wants there porn collection in that because you see then way to much

 

What type of files are 1.4gigs? Most torrent videos I have ahem heard of are around 700MB

 

OH MY GOD.

You guys are worse then a bunch of backward canucks.

Screw DivX and Xvid, the new bosses in town are called x.264 and H.264! The days were you could enjoy a 700 MB backup of your DVDs are finally over.

I prefer to create backups of my Blu-ray or HD-DVD movies in either 720p or 1080p resolution with a filesize of about 4.5 to 15 GB.

(And yeah, screw the 1.4 GB backups too.)

 

doesnt this have something to do with Vista's DRM stuff?