Evening all.

Ive just installed a TV card and the software that comes with it wont let me set a higher reolution than 600 x 400 which looks a bit blocky.

I wondered if anyone can recomend some other software that will work with a TV card to display video? Preferably free!

ta

Which card have you bought, for viewing TV you could try gbpvr from www.gbpvr.com although you need to be a techie to make it work properly.

Depends what tv card you're using. I use a program called ShowShifter (www.showshifter.com) which works a treat. Has a couple of minor niggles, like it can't cope with subtitles, but it can handle video, MP3 and so on.

Its Win Xp (SP2) and the card is a Packard Bell PCE TV Card PB-TV100.

I'm trying to run my xbox thrugh it on the yellow composite video input. THis is working put picture isnt that great. Wanted higher res. With Showshifter give me that?

I'm not using it for TV.

Nope! Showshifter is designed to allow you to watch & record TV using a TV capture card. As it uses the card's existing drivers then I doubt it'd improve picture quality.

I did a bit of seaching around and found this web site which seems to contain info & drivers. Dunno if it'd be of help to you? (http://www.pcline-support.co.uk/Packbell/)

Thanks. Another website has recomended some software called Dscaler which i'm trying. Seems to give a botter picture.

I think that essentialy a TV card isnt going to give me the great picture I was hoping for. It was just convenient to have my xbox living near my PC for the ethernet connection etc. PLus the only other option was a 14" portable. May have to see about a cheap brand 20" TV or something.