Problem EVR Crash - 780G / ATI3200 / VISTA (1 Viewer)

[kiwijunglist]

Hi

Has anyone with the 780G MB using onboard video under vista64 got EVR going when watching live TV?

I get flickering in the menus when OSD is up and after a few seconds Mediaportal Crashes. I am therefore limited to VRM9, however my CPU useage is constantly high around 80% with the odd stutter when watching live HD H264 TV using the bundled HVR2200 powercinema h264 codecs or FFDShow. I assume that buying powerdvd wouldn't help since the HA will only work with EVR enabled, so I would have to get EVR running before considering purchase of powerdvd. I understand that even if I can't get Full HA, i can atleast offload a greater proportion of the video processing to hardware rather than CPU.

If anyone has Vista EVR working nicely with a 780G MB can you please post
1. MB Version / CPU / RAM
2. ATI Driver version
3. Vista 32 or 64 bit?
4. Which H264 Codecs your using
5. Your TV Card
6. Approx CPU useage with live H264 TV

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Silverstone LC16-M & iMon Remote | Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H 780G with Onboard ATI HD3200 | AMD X2 4200+ CPU | Adata 2GB RAM | 750GB HDD | HVR 2200 | Vista 64 SP1 | Mediaportal RC1 | Mentalinc's EPG | Gefen DVI-Detective | Samsung LA46N81BX 46" 1080P LCD | Samsung HT-TX35T 5.1 SPDIF Receiver

 

[tourettes]

0001192: Flickering Tv-guide and other overlays with EVR enabled - MediaPortal Bugtracker - in short currently MP + ATI + EVR + Vista -> not a good combination.

 

[mironicus]

Hi

Has anyone with the 780G MB using onboard video under vista64 got EVR going when watching live TV?

I get flickering in the menus when OSD is up and after a few seconds Mediaportal Crashes. I am therefore limited to VRM9, however my CPU useage is constantly high around 80% with the odd stutter when watching live HD H264 TV using the bundled HVR2200 powercinema h264 codecs or FFDShow. I assume that buying powerdvd wouldn't help since the HA will only work with EVR enabled, so I would have to get EVR running before considering purchase of powerdvd. I understand that even if I can't get Full HA, i can atleast offload a greater proportion of the video processing to hardware rather than CPU.

This is a known problem within Mediaportal. The bug was just shifted to 1.0 RC3. But I think there will be no solution (have to wait for Mediaportal 2?). Try CoreAVC and VMR9 - I have no stutters using this software codec.

You can also try other DVB applications (DVBViewer, DreamDVB...) - your system will run well using EVR with hardware acceleration (using PowerDVD 7 or 8) enabled. You will see no flicker or tearing and the cpu load will be under 10% with your computer.