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[portal user]

Thank you for a killer RC3, its really awesome.

One thing though :. I have found one problem, which I have no idea how to solve. I don't know if it's a mediaportal thing or related to my setup.

When I open media portal every thing is good, very steady picture no flicker at all. Now when I play back an xvid file I notice a slight flicker on the screen. Pressing back to the main screen I have the xvid file playing in the small box, the whole screen now flickers. There was no flicker before when no video was playing.

Its not only xvid files, same goes for mpeg-2, live tv, divx ect.

My display is a Pioneed PDP-435FDE connected using DVI -> HDMI cable. The panel is supporting 720p, but the desktop is to large for the screen when running that resolution. I have underscaned to 1216x692. Don't make a difference when I don't, but who knows.

Area: Media Portal Program
MediaPortal Version: 0.2.0.0 RC3 (2006-03-18)
MediaPortal Skin: BlueTwo1280x720
Windows Version: Windows XP (SP2)
.NET CLR Version: 2.0.50727
DirectX Version: 4.09.00.0904 (9.0c)
Audio Codec: NVIDIA Audio Decoder
Video Codec: NVIDIA Video Decoder
CPU Type: AMD Athlon 64 3200+
Memory: 1 GB
Motherboard: A8N-SLI Premium (ASUSTeK Computer INC.)
TV Card Model: FloppyDTV-C
TV Card Type: DVB-C
TV Card Driver: DBA 4.1
Video Card Model: Nvidia Geforce 6600 (128 MB)
Video Card Driver: 84.12
Video Card Resolution: 1216x692
Video Render Type: VMR9
Audio Card Model: NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) Audio
Audio Card Driver: -
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Best Regards

POrtal User

 

[markysoft]

I know exactly what you mean, the screen kind of strobes and part of the window shows the video you were watching and doesn't get updated.

I think this problem is down to the nVidia codec, not mediaportal - I first saw the problem when running Media Center with live tv.

Seeings as I have a shuttle machine with an nvidia chipset, an nvidia 5200 graphics card and I'm using nvidia codecs I'd expect it to be more reliable, but there you go.

Maybe it's an ffdshow conflict or something rather than an nvidia issue, but it certainly put me of buying it as all the other codecs work fine.

 

[portal user]

Thank you markysoft,
I am stille trying to find a solution.
Have upgraded the display driver to the latest version. That helped a little bit.
Uninstalled all direct-show filters except nvidia purevideo, which helped a bit too.

But I am not there yet.

Thinking about downgrading the nvidia codec to the former version.

Any ideas?

Best Regards

Portal User

 

[portal user]

I now got it solved

It turns out that you really need to use the xp media center display driver from NVIDIA if you are running xp media center

I was useing the XP driver instead, and that was causing the problem.

Best regards

Portal User

 

[Taipan]

It turns out that you really need to use the xp media center display driver from NVIDIA if you are running xp media center

But, you are not running MCE - according to your first post, you are running Windows XP (SP2)..... :?

 

[portal user]

That is true... the info was collected using the support-tool.
Perhaps there is a bug there

Best Regards

Portal User