Vista and EVR Support - Part 2 (2 Viewers)

[Eabin]

hey sven, i finally came around to looking at your logfiles. there is one thing that might indicate a problem:

31-10-2007 18:05:17.939 [b5c]Presenting sample
31-10-2007 18:05:21.249 [e98]Processmessage: 2, 00000000

there is a gap of more than 3 seconds between two log entries at the above point. this may corrupt the rendering pipeline. i have no idea where this may come from. are you automatically synchronizing windows with some time-service which could alter the system time while MP is running? other than that, it would be interesting what the other logfiles say at this point in time (especially mediaportal.log).

Nigel_K, if this is indeed a codec problem (and it does somehow look like one), i don't think there is much i can do about it the logfiles don't tell anything interesting either. you could try to find a way to have both codecs installed in parallel, and use the working one for MP and still can PowerDVD for watching BluRay discs.

 

[chemelli]

Eabin,

I'm running VMR9 with Dscaler codec + ffdshow post processing and quality is fine.
Instead with EVR i get only artefacts, completly unwatchable.

Simone

 

[Eabin]

for EVR, you should either use the Vista builtin codec from Microsoft, or the PowerDVD codec, since those are the only ones that really support EVR at the moment. although dscaler shouldn't produce artefacts either, but that can be heavily driver dependant. e.g. when you enable noise-reduction in nvidia control center, you will get a weird image with dscaler.

 

[spinmar]

for EVR, you should either use the Vista builtin codec from Microsoft, or the PowerDVD codec, since those are the only ones that really support EVR at the moment. although dscaler shouldn't produce artefacts either, but that can be heavily driver dependant. e.g. when you enable noise-reduction in nvidia control center, you will get a weird image with dscaler.

So I should use, in tv section, powerdvd codec and not nvidia pure video codec?
What is the name of vista bultin codec from Microsoft?
What do you suggest to use?

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

What is the name of vista bultin codec from Microsoft

Because you have Vista Enterprise (Business Edition) a lot of the multimedia bits are not there, including the MS codecs.

Regards

 

[spinmar]

Ok, If i don't have MS codec, should I use PowerDVD codec instead of nvidia pure video codec, as suggested by Eabin?

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

should I use PowerDVD codec instead of nvidia pure video codec

I have both, but prefer the PDVD7, if getting EVR working is that important to you then would recommend it.

Wonder if dxva2 is possible on your version of vista, might be worthwhile googling.

 

[Darre]

You just answered that one yourself =)

edit:

PD snook a post in between my answer and the post i was answering. This post was aimed at spinmars post regarding what codec to use.

 

[spinmar]

should I use PowerDVD codec instead of nvidia pure video codec

I have both, but prefer the PDVD7, if getting EVR working is that important to you then would recommend it.

Wonder if dxva2 is possible on your version of vista, might be worthwhile googling.

I suppose that dxva2 is in all version of vista. So you are suggesting me to use PDVD7.
I find this important hot fix for evr http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935878/en-us: did you install it?
@Darre
I don't understand your answer ... Could you explain me?
Thanks

 

[Darre]

@Darre
I don't understand your answer ... Could you explain me?
Thanks

Well Eabin does tell you right here:

for EVR, you should either use the Vista builtin codec from Microsoft, or the PowerDVD codec, since those are the only ones that really support EVR at the moment. although dscaler shouldn't produce artefacts either, but that can be heavily driver dependant. e.g. when you enable noise-reduction in nvidia control center, you will get a weird image with dscaler.

Since you dont have the Microsoft codec, and PowerDVD is the only other one that supports it, you dont have much of a choice if you want it to work.