1080i material not deinterlacing under 1.0.1.0 (3 Viewers)

[globaldonkey]

You can get passively cooled 4670's too. Not much price difference, and if you're at all concerned the 4550 won't cut it, you could go for one of these. I do think the 4550 is borderline, but probably ok in Australia where we use MPEG 2 for HD TV and not h.264.

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For me, the 4350 almost works. Good performance on full screen TV (some minor drops every now and again), but significant frame drops whenever HDTV is windowed. I do have a fan cooled 4670 in my "test" system, and it works flawlessly. Buying the passive 4670 when I have some time to install.

 

[Callumgw]

Thanks!, I am starting to see a trend though; PDVD7 codecs.
Trying SAF looks certain now.

C

 

[Andrew H]

You can 'gather' the PDVDx codec without implementing the full-blown SAF regimine...

 

[Callumgw]

I was going to get PowerProd for editing my canon AVCHD videos, but this won't be for this PC.
Is there any advantage to not using SAF?

C

 

[pilehave]

In Catalyst 9.7 I can set my deinterlacing to vector adaptive on a HD 3200 onboard, so its a bit of a surprise if the 4350 can't do it

Anyways, I also think you should at least get 4550 as users with 4350 has reported dropouts in framerate. I agree that the 4550 may be cutting it a little low. Perhaps you can buy one and return it if it doesn't perform well enough?

 

[kiwijunglist]

google "HD PACK 2.2" it will install either standalone pdvd8 or pdvd9 h264 codec. alternatively you can use unlocked saf, but if your just testing 1080i H264 HDTV then HD Pack 2.2 would be good.

 

[Callumgw]

Thanks all for your suggestions,
Firstly, I think in AUS its MPEG2, and not H264 for free to air. That said I will need H264 for the canon video camera and Blueray stuff in the future. So I might try the HD Pack 2.2

I got CLVsd.ax registered through "regsrv32 CLVsd.ax" from 'run'. Used the Cyberlink option and the static picture is definately a little sharper, but the ghosting still exists for the 1080i channel (One-HD) and frame rates stayed at 25-ish fps. Interesting I played with other settings in catalyst 9.8 and manage to make it struggle with a second channel (ABC-HD). It become inconsistent in playback speed and frame rates were down to 18-ish fpr. But the 1080i channel was almost unchanged, still made 25-ish fps. When I put all the setting to highest performance ABC-HD was good with 50-ish fps, and One-HD reached 30-ish fps, but still ghosting and moving images. This ghosting does not occur on this channel if played from the TV receiver.
Again with this the shift1 report no dropped frames.

I tried SAF, but it told me to uninstall all other codecs, then told me it couldn't install because Haali wasn't installed . So I booted that idea for now.
Might try going back to 1.0 final to see if that fixes it,
C

 

[kkozma]

@Callumgw
I went looking for passive cards earlier (gave it up because of the extra 80W) and found a few 4550's that were both low-profile (I have no room for full-height myself) and passive cooled.

You might wanna look at a Sapphire RADEON HD 4550 and similar. Its kinda cheap (Around €40 in Denmark).

Thanks, but kkorzma's comments on pg7 and 13 suggest that a ATI HD4550 isn't strong enough for the new "improved" rendering method. I'm only guessing that a ATI HD4670 is bare minimum which disappointing because it suggests a machine that's only 1 year old can't cope.

Actually, I'm not an expert at any of this so can some one confirm, do I need to revert the TV server component, the Client component or both?
C

I thought I clarified... The issues I had were directly related to the power dvd codec. For whatever reason, I cannot use the power dvd codec on my machine with my 4550. It stutters about once every 5-15 seconds. Pretty much makes it unwatchable. I switched to dscaler for handling my mpeg2 decoding and haven't had a problem since. Of course this comes with a compromise of no DXVA.

When windows 7 comes out, I'm going to wipe out my HTPC and start over. I'm SURE something I installed at some point is what caused the power dvd codec malfunction because it used to work no problem.

 

[Callumgw]

AAAAAGGGGHHHH where can i find a version of V1.0, mine is giving me an IE download error.

c

 

[hoborg]

I tried SAF, but it told me to uninstall all other codecs, then told me it couldn't install because Haali wasn't installed . So I booted that idea for now.
Might try going back to 1.0 final to see if that fixes it,
C

Haali is splitter, it split your video file to video/audio/subtitle parts - it is core part of video decoding. Without it you wont be able to play lot of media, switch between two or more audio tracks/subtitles, etc.

SAF told you that you should uninstall all other codecs, becouse there are no need of them any longer