Arcsoft TotalMedia Theatre - Page 103

Currenty Im running TotalMedia Theatre (ASUS version .125 since I have the ASUS Xonar HDAV1.3 sound card) and have noticed that when I play a physical Blu-ray from the disc drive, both the sound and video stutter very bad. But when I play a Blu-ray ISO file, it plays back perfectly in TMT.

Now, when I play a physical Blu-ray disc in PowerDVD it also doesnt stutter at all.

What in the world could be causing this??? I have read about power management settings, the TMT hardware aceleration, etc.....I have tried all of these and still no go.

If anyone has a solution it I would really appreciate it!

I have Vista Media Center Home Edition 32bit, ATI Radeon 4850, AMD Phenonm 9650 Quad-Core 2.31 Ghz with 4 GB of RAM

Just purchased Arcsoft TMT. I am running a 780g platform on MCE2005 and am getting horrible jaggies. Disabling HW accel seemed to help but made it too slow on playback. Any fixes for this? PDVD8 looks fantastic in comparison. Tested TDK BD.

Now TMT played fine with HW off. Is this the case for anyone with XP and Nvidia card?

Also noticed that v.126 with Reclock indicates 24 bit for sound whilst v.128 only offer 16 bit. Any one come across such findings also?

In terms of picture, seems like PowerDVD HD Ultra is better but for sound TMT is much better. Same observations?

The jaggies were improved but not eliminated with HW acceleration off. However, it started dropping frames especially on panning scenes.

The only solution I found was to upgrade to Vista - which did solve the issue. You can see my thread about jaggies in the ArcSoft forums for more details...

I was considering upgrading to Vista anyways. Isn't Vista required for some features? Something that utilize the protected audio path etc....what am I thinking of?

I am running 2.1.6.120

Where can I download the 128 or 126 patch?
I cant find it on Arcsoft's website.

When I click on "product updates" it says:
"You are already running the latest version available. Please check later"

rajdude,

you'll have to look through the arcsoft forum for the updates
note: 128 has an updated .ax file which was posted lated in the same thread, this has to be replaced

ok thanks, I found the thread for 128
http://www.arcsoft.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1417

BTW, has anyone else noticed that the picture quality of TMT seems slightly inferior when compared with PDVD 8?

No, actually it's considerably better. Specifically TMT's image has more fine detail.

If you are talking color and black levels, you probably need to calibrate your system.

Vern

I have to agree with Vern. ArcSoft's decoder looks much better on my setup, both inside and outside of TMT.

I have not been able to get PDVD to playback some of the Blu Rays in my collection. So today, even though I have never been able to get any trial version of TMT to run on my system I gambled $69.99 on the retail version.

Much to my dismay it works and even plays back the movies PDVD will not however I have one annoying issue with it. Everyone once in a while the image will get for the lack of a better term, scrambled. Sometimes it will correct itself and sometimes I have to pause and restart it.

Anyone else have this issue and know a fix?

It is version .126 and I am running XP

Make sure power management is disabled (including "Cool and Quiet" or any other mobo BIOS energy saving / clock switching / speed shifting options) and you are not autostarting a bunch of junk.

Start-Run-msconfig to check. TMT likes Nvidia cards best, so if you have ATI, you might have some issues.....

If by scrambled, you mean like multi-colored blocks, you video card may be overheating....

Vern

Im running the ASUS version of TMT version .125 since I have the Xonar HDAV1.3 sound card.

Since I have been having problems playing a Blu-ray disc in TMT with alot of video/audio stuttering, I went ahead and updated my video card driver to the latest version. I was only getting this when physically playing a disc. I have one Blu-ray ISO file at the moment and it did not stutter at all with that.

Now that I have done that, as soon as I try to play a Blu-ray disc or a Blu-ray ISO, TMT starts and then immediately shuts down. Now to hopefully fix the stutter problem, I now cant play Blu-ray period without it immediately giving me the error "ArcSoft TotalMedia Theatre has stopped working".

Standard DVD discs and standard DVD ISO files play with no problem at all.

The only thing that has changed was my upgraded graphics driver. Why is this happening????

Please advise

It is not the overheated blocks, I have seen that before with some past cards this looks more like a scrambled or jumbled image.

I have an ATI card perhaps that is the culprit, have not updated to the latest drivers, going to see if that does the trick, thanks.

Have to disagree. I have NVIDIA CP taking over color controls so that both players use the same settings. When watching Wanted BD PowerDVD 8 (with Aero hack applied) was noticably sharper than TMT which looks a bit soft.

And that's how difficult it is to really decide/know which player gives the better replay.

Eventually, they'll be an "official" comparison that will agree with some of us.

It's too system specific.

"Sharper" != More Detailed"

More detailed = more fine details visible on the screen.
Sharper = harder edges on larger objects on the screen.

Ah, I see. You are running XP probably using the older less capable VMR9.

I am running Vista32 using MS latest state of the art renderer (EVR).

Could well account fo the difference.....

Vern

I had nothing but troubles with the AMD Cool and Quiet. I would also recommend changing the windows power setting from balanced to full...or whatever the high speed setting is called.

The Intel power saving works well, but the AMD one was just too slow to respond or something. Horrible video problems happened with it turned on and power set to balanded with AMD.

Too many geeks with tin-foil hats running around dodging black hellicopters!

If you read the jaggies thread either here or on the arcsoft forum people with xp and poor image in tmt upgraded to vista to see their problems go away, worth I try I say, seperate partition, vista 30 day trial, can't go wrong really

Are we sure that TMT uses EVR??

I am not sure on my system because I always get that message :
"Windows has done (something) to go down to Vista basic "

This happens when both PDVD and TMT start playing any BD.
I read somewhere that this is because these software players are using overlay instead of EVR.

I could have read that thread wrong

TMT uses EVR if your video card and drivers will support it.

I have never seen that message.

Using Nvidia 9800GTX running 1080 24PsF via HDMI on Vista Ultimate 32.

Vern

TMT v.125 running on Vista SP1 and Intel G45 stays in Aero. Version 126 and 128 both drop out of Aero. As Vern says it depends on the drivers and if Arcsoft are still doing it. I'm not sure if TMT runs in Aero with version 126 or 128 on NVidia or ATI at all.

TMT runs in Aero on both .126 and .128 with Nvidia.

Vern

I went to try out the trial on this and could not find it. Is it gone? Will it work on vista x64?

There's an update to the update.
http://www.arcsoft.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1417

TMT not running in Aero is hit and miss. On my HTPC with a HD2900XT via HDMI, .126, it doesn't drop out of Aero.

On a laptop with Intel Graphics (4500 series), .126, it does drop to Vista Basic. Though, Reclock still states TMT is using EVR.

Don't know about x64... but here's an old version trial then get update from tmt forum: