Time flies, and I've been out of touch.
I'm trying to find out what the current "best practices" are for DVD playback in software. I have ZoomPlayer, WinDVD5 Gold filters, those last batch of Ravisent filters that ATI distributed (end of the 4 family), DScaler 5 filters and several versions of FFDShow (anyone pointing out the location of a particularly recommened version gets extra points
). Now I'm only running an Applebred core Duron OCed to 1.9gig, so going overboard with FFDShow just won't work.
On my PC rig, I watch mainly anime (the wife doesn't care for it, so there isn't really much opportunity to watch it on the living room setup). My biggest complaint with software playback right now is that, even on the best flagged film-source material, none of my attempted configurations has even been able to marginally handle pan shots (some configs are so bad that the jerks in a pan even disrupt the audio playback). I can settle for less than the absolute best PQ. I just want decent looking on a large, high res PC monitor with buttery smooth pans, like from an STB player.
Recently, I've become so frustrated with the pan issue on some newer, theatrical titles, that I've reverted to using an old STB->SVideo->Flyvideo2000->DScaler 4.1.11. PQ on this method is acceptable to me, and the pans are perfect. One problem is the large, extra box in my cramped office space. I haven't figured out how to make my slimline PS2 actually pump out an anamorphic signal, so on non-fullscreen material, the resolution reaching DScaler is so obviously low that the PQ is absolutely not acceptable (any help on this point would be gladly welcome). My newer, halfsize Cyberhome cheapie is better and performs fine, but the drive is so loud that its completely unuseable in this capacity. So, I'm forced to use an old, full size Toshiba STB which takes up about 12 times the room of a slim PS2. The second problem, and the one that's finally got me back to these forums after something of an absence is that DScaler 4.1.11 has started showing a tendency to randomly rebooting my machine, without warning (its a matter of when, not if).
So any thoughts on properly setting up ZP->DS5->FFDShow to minimize the panning issue (I've had nothing but trouble trying to get FFDShow working with WinDVD5)? Or maybe any advice concerning my reboot problem with DScaler 4 (and PS2 config issue)?
Thanks,
Kensai
I'm trying to find out what the current "best practices" are for DVD playback in software. I have ZoomPlayer, WinDVD5 Gold filters, those last batch of Ravisent filters that ATI distributed (end of the 4 family), DScaler 5 filters and several versions of FFDShow (anyone pointing out the location of a particularly recommened version gets extra points
On my PC rig, I watch mainly anime (the wife doesn't care for it, so there isn't really much opportunity to watch it on the living room setup). My biggest complaint with software playback right now is that, even on the best flagged film-source material, none of my attempted configurations has even been able to marginally handle pan shots (some configs are so bad that the jerks in a pan even disrupt the audio playback). I can settle for less than the absolute best PQ. I just want decent looking on a large, high res PC monitor with buttery smooth pans, like from an STB player.
Recently, I've become so frustrated with the pan issue on some newer, theatrical titles, that I've reverted to using an old STB->SVideo->Flyvideo2000->DScaler 4.1.11. PQ on this method is acceptable to me, and the pans are perfect. One problem is the large, extra box in my cramped office space. I haven't figured out how to make my slimline PS2 actually pump out an anamorphic signal, so on non-fullscreen material, the resolution reaching DScaler is so obviously low that the PQ is absolutely not acceptable (any help on this point would be gladly welcome). My newer, halfsize Cyberhome cheapie is better and performs fine, but the drive is so loud that its completely unuseable in this capacity. So, I'm forced to use an old, full size Toshiba STB which takes up about 12 times the room of a slim PS2. The second problem, and the one that's finally got me back to these forums after something of an absence is that DScaler 4.1.11 has started showing a tendency to randomly rebooting my machine, without warning (its a matter of when, not if).
So any thoughts on properly setting up ZP->DS5->FFDShow to minimize the panning issue (I've had nothing but trouble trying to get FFDShow working with WinDVD5)? Or maybe any advice concerning my reboot problem with DScaler 4 (and PS2 config issue)?
Thanks,
Kensai