RE: [OT] Vista MCE DVD playback

[Paul Gale <groups2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds to me like a graphics card/driver issue - is it VSync I wonder?
Sounds like you're describing the page tearing symptoms normally associated
with VSync issues.

What graphics card and drivers do you have installed - did you update to
the manufacturers latest rather than the stock Vista MS drivers?

Paul.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Paul Gordon
> Sent: 27 January 2009 17:02
> To: UKHA Group
> Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] Vista MCE DVD playback
>
> Peeps, I'm doing my own research into this issue at the mo, but in
> tandem, I thought it couldn't hurt to ask here, since there is just
> such
> a wealth of collective knowledge here, that someone might already know
> the answer, and save me a lot of searching...
>
> I just rebuilt my media server, and for various reasons, I pretty much
> had to go with Vista Ultimate rather than XP MCE 2005. Having
completed
> the rebuild, everything "works" but I have an annoying
visual artefact
> when viewing DVD's, either physical discs, or ripped to hard disk.
>
> Basically, there is what looks like a tear, going horizontally across
> the screen, that appears during scenes with fast motion or fast
> left-right pans in the image, and sometimes also after scene changes.
> It
> kind of looks like I'm seeing the frame being refreshed, but at the
> join, there seems to be a horizontal offset between the upper &
lower
> parts of the image, - it looks like one part of the image is shifted
> sideways by a couple of pixels. The line is not in a fixed place, it
> moves up or down according to where in the image the most motion is
> occurring. This *only* seems to appear in DVD playback, - Vista Media
> Centre's own test videos (the very attractive people playing pool)
> played perfectly when I went through the various MCE setup procedures,
> and I just watched an XviD .AVI compressed copy of Terminator 2 all
the
> way through without a hint of a problem.
>
> The artifact I'm seeing with DVD playback occurs whether I use the MCE
> interface, or just use media player from the desktop to play a .VOB
> file.
>
> Now of course, with the old XP MCE, there was no MPEG2 codec by
> default,
> and I had to install MCE compliant DVD playback software... Whereas
> Vista ultimate includes the DVD MPEG2 playback codecs as part of the
> OS,
> and it's my working theory for now, that this is what is causing the
> problem... - i.e. Vista's own codec is crap...
>
> So, what I'm after knowing is:
>
> Has anyone here experienced this issue & recognises my
description?
> Does my suspicion of Vista's default DVD software sound reasonable?
>
> Also, as part of troubleshooting this, I think I'm going to need to
try
> to install alternate (i.e. better) DVD playback software to either
> prove
> or disprove my theory, so I need to know what DVD software is
> compatible
> with Vista Ultimate's mediacentre?
>
> Any help or suggestions gratefully appreciated, because until I fix
it,
> the machine is almost unusable for watching my DVD library.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Paul G
>
>
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