[no Bug] RC 5 - "Dropped frames" in TV (ATI CCC 10.6 issue) (1 Viewer)

[Helios61]

Hi Devs!

Yesterday i made a fresh install of OS and MP RC 5! Now in live TV i ge a lot of "dropped frames" and stuttering! It's the same in SDTV or HDTV, SAF 4 or SAF 5!

Logs are attached!

Best regards

Helios

 

[Helios61]

AW: RC 5 - "Dropped frames" in TV

Hi Devs!

I think, it's no bug, but it's odd! Only opening the Catalyst Control Center window solves the issue -> no dropped frames! Closing the window -> a lot of dropped frames! It's CCC 10.6!

 

[jameson_uk]

re: RC 5 - "Dropped frames" in TV (ATI CCC 10.6 issue)

Marking as no bug and updated title incase anyone else is searching for this

 

[BJ Eagle]

Hi - I've run into similiar problems. For me it seems HW accelerated decoding got switched of with the mediaportal 1.1 rc5 and catalyst 10.6 combination. I will try to revert to catalyst 10.5 tonight and see if that helps. My system specs are more or less in the same ballpark as yours (Radeon HD4350 on Win7 32 bit). You will probably notice a high increase in CPU usage compared to working HW accelerated video decoding. This is the cause for the framedrops I experience.

The funny thing is that I have PowerDVD 10 installed and uses those codecs in MediaPortal. HW decode fails in Mediaportal but not in Powerdvd...

 

[fabien44]

Hi - I've run into similiar problems. For me it seems HW accelerated decoding got switched of with the mediaportal 1.1 rc5 and catalyst 10.6 combination. I will try to revert to catalyst 10.5 tonight and see if that helps. My system specs are more or less in the same ballpark as yours (Radeon HD4350 on Win7 32 bit). You will probably notice a high increase in CPU usage compared to working HW accelerated video decoding. This is the cause for the framedrops I experience.

The funny thing is that I have PowerDVD 10 installed and uses those codecs in MediaPortal. HW decode fails in Mediaportal but not in Powerdvd...

Are you able to set DXVA in the PDVD10 codec properties?

 

[Helios61]

AW: Re: RC 5 - "Dropped frames" in TV (ATI CCC 10.6 issue)

Hi - I've run into similiar problems. For me it seems HW accelerated decoding got switched of with the mediaportal 1.1 rc5 and catalyst 10.6 combination. I will try to revert to catalyst 10.5 tonight and see if that helps. My system specs are more or less in the same ballpark as yours (Radeon HD4350 on Win7 32 bit). You will probably notice a high increase in CPU usage compared to working HW accelerated video decoding. This is the cause for the framedrops I experience.

The funny thing is that I have PowerDVD 10 installed and uses those codecs in MediaPortal. HW decode fails in Mediaportal but not in Powerdvd...

Same issue with Catalys 10.5! But the joke is, if i (only) open CCC, it is working like a charme!

Are you able to set DXVA in the PDVD10 codec properties?

Yes

 

[BJ Eagle]

I tried reverting to CCC 10.5 which did not help my case. Reinstalled MediaPortal 1.1 RC5 (fresh install) didn't help either. I think I have to start from scratch which really breaks my mood since it worked perfectly until something happened that I can't seem to revert. Hence I have no clue to as what it was or how to prevent it from happening again.

@ Helios61 - the "fix" with opening CCC does me no good.

@ fabien44 - yes: Hardware acceleration (ATI Avivo) is checked

 

[Andrew H]

That ATi AVIVO is for the file converter - the poster was asking if you have PDVD10 set for DXVA on.

 

[robyf]

Hi - I've run into similiar problems. For me it seems HW accelerated decoding got switched of with the mediaportal 1.1 rc5 and catalyst 10.6 combination. I will try to revert to catalyst 10.5 tonight and see if that helps. My system specs are more or less in the same ballpark as yours (Radeon HD4350 on Win7 32 bit). You will probably notice a high increase in CPU usage compared to working HW accelerated video decoding. This is the cause for the framedrops I experience.

The funny thing is that I have PowerDVD 10 installed and uses those codecs in MediaPortal. HW decode fails in Mediaportal but not in Powerdvd...

I suspect the powerdvd properties in MP to set HW acceleration do not work anymore with powerdvd10 (probably registry settings have been changed). So you have to enable DXVA in powerdvd10 itself.

I suggest you to try another codec (for instance microsoft one) and see if it gets better (in my configuration I'm not able to use powerdvd10, it gives a lot of stutter, but MS codec works fine).

Also please configure your system properties in your forum profile and make it visible so we can help you better.

If you have the problem with 1080i HDTV only and output to a fullhd display, it may also be your GPU that is underpowered for vector adaptive deinterlacing of 1080i under MP with fullhd resolution. One thing you can try is to disable some aero effects, like transparency, to reduce GPU load (do not disable aero itself or you will get tearing).

 

[BJ Eagle]

You are right. It seems I have been fooled a bit. I found another thread which showed the missing registry entries:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\CyberLink\Common\clcvd\MediaPortal]
"UIUseHVA"=dword:00000001
"UIVMode"=dword:00000001

So it seems my previous PDVD10 codec usage was indeed not HW accelerated. So my problem now is if I use either PDVD10 Video Decoder or MS (Win7 32 bit) codec I get bad stutter with HDTV. But only in mediaportal... Without HW acceleration (PDVD10 Codec) the playback is more or less smooth but CPU usage lies about 75-90 % which I of course would like to avoid.

So a new question is - why the HW accelerated stutter in mediaportal ? Any ideas ?

P.S. Filmerit 3.0.8 shows no errors