display videos

[jarvis24]

Thanks so much for the helpful update Aurelie.

-Blair

[bsmith82]

Blair, do you have ideas about what graphics cards work best with Direct RT? We are having similar problems and trying to find a graphics card that will help us display video with Direct RT.

[jarvis24]

It's probably not an issue about the graphics card so much as the codecs installed on the machine. There is a freeware codec updater package you can download from www.download.com called k-lite. I have found it very useful in helping machines to play videos that were previously having trouble. You can also visit their website at http://www.codecguide.com (See also: http://www.codecguide.com/faq.htm). Note though--because it's freeware, be careful not to click on any advertising links that say "download now!" for other software. For most of the files you want you need to scroll down. Typical file name will be something like K-Lite_Codec_Pack_670_Full.exe when prompted by Windows to run or save it to disk. But to answer your question directly, I like ATI cards. But pretty much anything nowadays is fine for playing video--they vary more in their 3D capabilities. As a general rule though, do try to avoid video controllers that are simply chips on the motherboard of the system (as opposed to dedicated graphic/display cards).