Projecting the output from VJ-II

Now that I’m in the process of finalising a system for VJ-II, another issue is presenting itself on the test rig.  The second screen video playback is noticeable interlaced and can sometimes tear when there is left to right tracking in the video.

When playing the same video using any standalone player the image is very sharp even at 1024 x 768 resolution.

As I would prefer to use a projector that can handle the higher computer resolution rather than to project in PAL where the lines will be all the more noticeable over a large screen area, I am wondering if a faster graphics card would make the difference.

At the moment I am using an Nvidia FX5200 which I thought was a fast 3D card (well it was at the time I bought it!).  I have changed the video settings in the application but that doesn’t resolve the issue.

Can anybody advise whether a faster card sorts it out (and which one) or do I have to project the video at PAL resolution?

Hi Edy

Thanks for the input.

The image anti-alias filter is set to strong but as I say the image is not very smooth.  Although even setting it to disabled doesn't make it very much worse!  Not like the difference between the Max video size at the "no limit" setting versus the "512" setting where the change is very obvious (ie the image becomes very pixelated).

I look forward to the scheduled optimization. Keep me posted.

All the best, Simon

Thanks Edy.  Not so easy for me to quantify in this case.  Even if I reduce the second screen resolution to 800 x 600, the resultant output with a 64 window setting is total pixelization and no matter how I set the anti-alias filter, I still cannot discern an image!

As I say, even at 512 and 1024 x 768 sceen resolution the image is very pixelated.

"No Limit" produces the best of all  possible results (though I have not output to PAL yet as I don't have the dongle for this card).