Arcsoft TotalMedia Theatre - Page 104

I agree with the hit and miss thing.
sometimes on my setup it does stay in Aero.....other times it goes to basic. I can only guess that it depends on what BD I am playing.

My setup:
Vista Ultimate x86 SP1
nVidia 8600GTS with latest drivers (October 7th)
TMT v...120

I believe it's only discs with BD-J that cause it to drop to basic. Just theory, I haven't really tested it to confirm.

Ok I've got version .126 about 80% of my ripped movies work. I was going to try the latest update .128 How are you guys going back to a previous version if the update doesn't work? I'd like to go back to .126 if the new version screws more things up then does help.

I just tried the 1:1 resolution tests from the BD version of this disc (converted to ISO), and it doesn't pass the vertical lines test. TMT is not painting a 1:1 horizontal picture, it seems. Would you guys confirm it?

Using build 128 by the way (latest as of now) on Vista 32, ATI 3450 with 8.11 drivers.

Have you tried it without hardware accelleration?
I have an HD3870 but do not use it: mainly because of lipsync issues but I don't really see anything that leads me to believe there is any reampling going on (1080p display).

Yep, tried with HA on or off, same thing. Have you tried the 1:1 resolution test? Another user at the Slysoft forums has reported this, but then he said the same version that I'm having problems with fixed it (128), so it may be some other factor at play.

Not yet but I've just calibrated my plasma today and I'm planning on doing the projector later tonight. I'll take a look.

To be honest the picture from TMT nevr struck me as being quite as razor sharp as my old standalone HDDVD player.

I'm still on .126 because of the 24p problems on 128.

seems fine on mine (JVC HD1) feeding it 1080p at 23.976 , lines are resolved, single pixel grid also resolves fine.

Thanks for testing. Its strange, after further testing, my PowerDVD 7.3.4407 doesn't resolve the horizontal lines with the HD-DVD test disc, but it does OK with the bluray. TMT doesn't even play the HD-DVD disc well, so I can't test that one. PowerDVD 8.0.2217 does well in both tests.

I was using the HDDVD version on TMT .

Got the five disc set for xmas. I don't know, maybe I got a bad disc. Using TMT v126 and latest anydvd (on or off). The final cut disc problem: Load disc into drive and takes anydvd almost two minutes to finish scanning. Open TMT and it starts to play, but like a slideshow of audio/video then freezes the player less than 30 seconds into the movie.

But, this also happens with Nero Showtime. And I've seen this behaviour before with (rental) discs that have a small crack in the edge. This disc was loose inside the case when I opened it, and it had a spot that looked scratched/gouged. After cleaning all that was left was a pin-prick size pit.

Has anyone got the set, been able to play disc one??? Thanks

The disks with a cracked edge always froze at the end, or AnyDVDHD would rip upto the end and fail. ImgBurn has done the same with damaged disks, but worked more often than TMT or Any. Mine is HDDVD

This one is not cracked tho, the tiny pin-pit is more toward the midpoint on the media. I don't rip, so I'd mainly like to know if ANYONE out there can play this particular title on a PC??? Thanks

I'm currently ripping the Workprint, so my HP WHS which has a Xbox360 HD DVD add-on reads it fine. I'll try my LG drive in my HTPC after it finishes, it didn't see it when I tried it a short while ago but AnyDVD was playing up.

The disc is bad - return it

I upgraded the my ATi 3850HD driver to latest Cat 8.12 drivers and that did the trick, no more intermittent scramble or jumbling of the image.

I have also been getting occasional lockups starting some movies and found that setting the uDTStart.exe priority from "normal" to "above normal" seems to fix that. I think it may have to do with that cancelautoplay.exe that starts up with uDTStart.exe causing a conflict, not sure.

I tried to make a short cut to automatically do it at startup i.e below, but it remains on the "normal" setting after start up so you have to change it manually in the task manager.

C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\cmd.exe /c cd "C:\\Program Files\\ArcSoft\\TotalMedia Theatre\\uDTStart.exe" && start/AboveNormal

I installed .128 today and though playback of some titles is better in MKV files now the program plays all the audio tracks ie commentaries and such with the movie sound track. Is anyone having similar problems or at least is there a way to turn off the other audio tracks?

Hey where can we download a DEMO of this software? Trial to see.

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There is a link to download site (rapidshare?) a few posts back in this thread. Supposedly it is still working. Just download and install it. From there you can upgrade to the latest version via the official website.
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Oh dear. Well I rebuilt my media centre a couple of weeks ago and have had TMT expire on me (expected). The problem is I had entered the incorrect personalized details in. I have a request open with Arcsoft but it is begining to look like it is not as easy as I thought to clear that info out and re-enter it. Has anyone found a way of clearing the personalised info out? I really dont want have to restore from before I made the entry because I had made quite a few changes after that.

well that ver. is almost a year old. we need a official up to date trial. If I can't find 1 i'll go with cyberlink or windvd. sux

I installed the trial and then installed the latest patch .128 (I had been using .125) and now all DVD movies are stuttering... WOW.. I am amazed on how crappy this development org. is... I am about to write this off and stick to PowerDVD.. and that is not saying much!

You can update the trial.

My best guess would be to uninstall the program, delete the folders located in Program Files and ProgramData. Then run Crap Cleaner and do a registry cleaning. Run the registry cleaner over and over again until it finds nothing. Then reboot.

There should be nothing left of TMT after that.

I have used CCLeaner for years with no ill effects. Be careful with the first tab, the temp file cleaner and such. If not configured properly, it will clear out all your cookies, so you will lose any saved passwords for websites. If you do not care about that, then go at it. You will be surprised at how many MB you are losing to temp files.

I have tried that but no luck. It seems that the info is intentionaly hidden. Damned annoying. I am just about at the point of restoring from the sunday before last. Think it was mostly built then and had not put in the personal info yet.

Question for the experts.
I have the HP 8510w laptop with nvidia quadro fx 570m, soundmax hd and hdmi port.

After installing TMT I noticed that HDMI is not an option in the "Audio Output Mode" drop down list, so I used s/pdif even though there no s/pdif port on my laptop.
My question is if this option is preventing me in sending dts-hd, DD+ or LPCM straight to my a/v receiver, because I noticed that the movies I watched play in either DTS or dolby digital only.

Any hint, do I need any driver? how can I make HDMI to show up in the drop down list?

Thanks

Have you cleared out the registry entries in addition to the hidden folders under all user accounts on your system.

anyone have any suggestions on my post:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...6#post15384156

I would like to use .128 but the audio is all over the place.

I upgraded to .128 and some movies played with sound but a black screen went back to .126 which seems to be the best build at least for me and all is well.

I think with this software if it ain't broke don't upgrade it just stick to the version you have working for you.

JV16 Powertool's has a useful tool called Registry Finder you can have it find everything with Arcsoft and Totalmedia in it and clear them out of the Registry, this might help as well..

Don't use .128. It is seriously broken for some users. That's why there is no current trial available. Use .126 for now. I suspect the holidays have caused issues with the Arcsoft developers and staff.

If you have .128 installed and are having problems with stuttering at 24P, swap out the ASVid.ax module with the one from .126.

Vern