XP crash with VMR9 and 780g hardware decoding (1 Viewer)

[Tank_Killer]

I for the life of my cant figure out why my system is crashing when i try to use hardware decoding with VMR9 on standard DVD. I have tried reformatting xp and reinstall everything. I am using powerDVD 7.3 and catalyst 8.9 drivers on a 780g mobo (radeon HD3200 graphix) and when i try to watch a movie it will play a few frames then crash my whole system. Now if i play a movie using hardware decoding in pdvd istelf I get no crashing. Also if I use the EVR instead if VMR9 it works in MP rc2 however I get noticeable tearing in videos (ESPECIALLY x264). Is this a classic case of crappy ATI drivers? Or am I doing something wrong. it used to work flawlessly :\, right now i am using the software decoder for dvd that comes with MP. However I think the video quality that comes off the hardware decoder to be better.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

BTW i LOVE MEDIAPORTAL!

hooray open source!


MediaPortal Version: RC2
MediaPortal Skin: Blue 2 wide
Windows Version: XP sp 3
CPU Type: AMD x2 5200+ EE
HDD: 250gb seagate
Memory: 2gig mushkin 5-5-5-12
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H
Video Card: ATI HD3200
Video Card Driver: Catalyst 8.9
h.264 Video Codec: Core AVC
HTPC Case: Silverstone LC-11

 

[Guzzi]

same problem here with same environment (Mobo, OS, etc.) - so very interested if someone has any solution?

 

[Tank_Killer]

glad to see im not the only one with this issue. hopefully someone might have some insight.

 

[tourettes]

If you are seeing a complete system reboot or BSOD then its pretty sure that ATI should have a look into the mirror and fix the drivers

 

[MartinH32]

I have the same mobo, etc and get nearly the same problem.
Mediaportal doesn't crash until I stop playing the DVD!

I do have another niggle which hopefully one of you guys can help with. I play dvd images from ISO's using Deamon tools. Mostly this works fine, sometimes the pictures judders as if the refresh rate is wrong. IF I press stop and start again - everything is ok!