Olleman Posted September 17, 2009 Posted September 17, 2009 (edited) Hello, I have been messing with my problem with DXVA and my Radeon 2400 for a couple of months now and I'm running out of ideas. Here's what's happened: January 2008: Bought myself a Radeon 2400 card with the intention of being able to watch HDTV channels stutter free on my computer (P4 3.6GHZ 1GB RAM). After a couple of days of trying different drivers and different reg tweaks I finally got it working perfectly. March 2009: Since 2008 I have installed a couple of programs in my computer as well as updated DVBViewer to newer versions. It's hard to say when the problems started but somewhere in this time region I started to get stutters on HD channels with after 30 minutes or so either resulted in a system crash or frozen picture. I have since then tried every driver I could get my hands on, numerous different versions of DVBViewer and a lot of different reg hacks but the problem persists. I can get a 100% perfect picture within ALtDVB so I know that DXVA works within my system. I'm also sure that DXVA is activated within DVBViewer since I occasionally get really nice picture (but only for 30 seconds or so) and this is something that my CPU alone cannot do. I am using the same codecs and the same rendered in both AltDVB and DVBViewer but still I have the problems only in DVBViewer. I cannot come to any other conclusion that there is a problem with DVBViewer for me...does anybody have a clue on what's going on here? Remember that I have once gotten perfect picture with DVBViewer so there isn't a hardware problem... I know that there a big thread about this whole mess in the German sections of this forum but they are more or less useless to me so I hope that any English writing people could give me a hand! Best Regards, Olle Edited September 17, 2009 by Olleman Quote
majstang Posted September 17, 2009 Posted September 17, 2009 What OS do you use? If Windows XP the last know problemfree driver is Catalyst 9.4. Quote
Olleman Posted September 17, 2009 Author Posted September 17, 2009 What OS do you use? If Windows XP the last know problemfree driver is Catalyst 9.4. I use WinXP and I have been trying everything from the newest drivers down to 8.1 and different beta drivers etc. Please also note that because DXVA is working flawlessly in AltDVB there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the drivers...also, I'm using PowerDVD 7.3 codec (the same one from when I first got i working back in 2008). Br, Olle Quote
majstang Posted September 17, 2009 Posted September 17, 2009 Ok, and the SD material is fine then? What renderer do you use? There are certain rules in WinXP to get the DXVA working correctly. http://www.codecguide.com/faq_dxva.htm It is surley odd this only occurs whith DVBViewer and not with other players. I had problems playing HD content before (HD3870) with the Cyberlink decoders. For me it was stuttering bad when using PowerDVD and not with other players (MPCHC). CoreAVC did a better job for me. Maybe you should try it out. Quote
MaxB Posted September 17, 2009 Posted September 17, 2009 For me it was stuttering bad when using PowerDVD and not with other players (MPCHC). CoreAVC did a better job for me. Maybe you should try it out. Same on my ASRock-Board with ATI-IGP (4Core1333 FullHD-Board), the Cyberlink Codecs won't work properly, CoreAVC works good but with 40-60% CPU-load. Thats one of the reasons why i never will use ATI-Cards again. Try a Mainboard with Nvidia-IPG and you will have al lot of fun with HDTV... Quote
Olleman Posted September 17, 2009 Author Posted September 17, 2009 (edited) Ok, and the SD material is fine then? What renderer do you use? There are certain rules in WinXP to get the DXVA working correctly. http://www.codecguide.com/faq_dxva.htm It is surley odd this only occurs whith DVBViewer and not with other players. I had problems playing HD content before (HD3870) with the Cyberlink decoders. For me it was stuttering bad when using PowerDVD and not with other players (MPCHC). CoreAVC did a better job for me. Maybe you should try it out. SD material is working great and I'm using overlay as renderer as I have always had some problems with WMR 7/9 and DXVA. I checked the FAQ that you linked to and I'm meeting all those requirements listed there. Using CoreAVC is not really an option for me since my hardware isn't fast enough to decode 1080i content in realtime, especially not in DVBViewer that I have noticed is using a lot more CPU power than MPC or ZoomPlayer which is my preferred media player. Same on my ASRock-Board with ATI-IGP (4Core1333 FullHD-Board), the Cyberlink Codecs won't work properly, CoreAVC works good but with 40-60% CPU-load.Thats one of the reasons why i never will use ATI-Cards again. Try a Mainboard with Nvidia-IPG and you will have al lot of fun with HDTV... Perhaps Nvidia would be the choice today, but please note that I have had a working configuration with exactly this hardware, so this is a software issue... I have two things I'm thinking of since the problem is only within DVBViewer. Could it be DVBViewers source filter that's messing this up somehow? Or could it be some basic function for the OSD or Subtitles? I have tried disabling subtitles and that doesn't do any good. Br, Olle Edited September 17, 2009 by Olleman Quote
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