Sweden
I have just made the move to Windows 7, getting mixed results. Here's a bunch of reflections and questions.
- Image smoothness is definitely improved over XP/VMR9
- The Windows 7 codecs were being used as standard for all media, I had to use that Doom9 tool to set the SAF codecs to standard. Bit invasive there, Win 7!
- The success of playing video files is pretty random. So far this only concerns HD material, i.e. the MPC codec. Sometimes when I start a h/x.264 video everything is fine, but when I fast forward I get severe stuttering of either of two kinds. One is a brutal stuttering (like 2fps) that can only be cured by ffwding to another spot in the video. Sometimes that has to be done a couple of times for it to work. The other case is a more mild stutter, which goes away by itself after maybe 4-5 seconds.
- I can't see any tray icons for my codecs when playing back video which I know is triggering the codecs I want. Is this a Win 7 thing?
- I can't get TV to use the PowerDVD codec, despite setting MPEG-2 to PowerDVD in the standard codec tool mentioned above. Also, every time I extract the PDVD codec SAF tells me that the codecs isn't the newest one, despite the fact that I downloaded it from PDVD's site. Why i that?
I will provide logs of eveything if there's a need for it!
- Image smoothness is definitely improved over XP/VMR9
- The Windows 7 codecs were being used as standard for all media, I had to use that Doom9 tool to set the SAF codecs to standard. Bit invasive there, Win 7!
- The success of playing video files is pretty random. So far this only concerns HD material, i.e. the MPC codec. Sometimes when I start a h/x.264 video everything is fine, but when I fast forward I get severe stuttering of either of two kinds. One is a brutal stuttering (like 2fps) that can only be cured by ffwding to another spot in the video. Sometimes that has to be done a couple of times for it to work. The other case is a more mild stutter, which goes away by itself after maybe 4-5 seconds.
- I can't see any tray icons for my codecs when playing back video which I know is triggering the codecs I want. Is this a Win 7 thing?
- I can't get TV to use the PowerDVD codec, despite setting MPEG-2 to PowerDVD in the standard codec tool mentioned above. Also, every time I extract the PDVD codec SAF tells me that the codecs isn't the newest one, despite the fact that I downloaded it from PDVD's site. Why i that?
I will provide logs of eveything if there's a need for it!
