[freakcity999]

Hardware:

MB: Foxconn A7GM-S using onboard 780G IGP

CPU: AMD 4850e

RAM: 2GBx2 G.SKILL DDR2 800

ATSC Tuner: 2xAvermedia A180


TV: 42" 1080P LCD via HDMI


Software: Windows Media Center Edition 2005, all updates

Decoder : PowerDVD and Purevideo


I am getting a stutter/choppy video when playing back recorded or live OTA video. The sound is fine, but the video is horrible especially when full screen, dont notice it nearly as much when not full screen (CPU utilization bounces between 30-90% when full screen, 15-20% when not). Weird thing is it also improves when moving the mouse so that it the media center controls show up on the top and bottom of the screen. I have run the same recorded shows fine from the Xbox 360, so its not the tuners or the video files. I can play DVD's from My Movies just fine with minimal CPU utilization (

 

[freakcity999]

Update

The video files play fine from Windows Media Player, but are choppy in Media Center.


Thanks

 

[freakcity999]

Update 2

I get smooth playback in Media Center if I open Media Player before Media Center.


Is there something different in the way media player plays the .dvr-ms files vs the media center?

 

[freakcity999]

So strangely enough, upgrading to the latest drivers from ATI makes it so I can't open the recorded TV files in Media Player, and definitely makes the video worse in Media Center.

I think a reinstall is in my future, anyone have any ideas before I do that?

 

[blue_z]

Hi there


You could try the Cyberlink video decoder. Get it from the K-Lite codec pack. Deselect everything, and only install the Cyberlink codec.


Are you using the Microsoft video decoder checkup utility (i.e. you should be)?


Regards

 

[sneakerx]

Roll back to Catalyst 8.9. I'm pretty certain that those were the last drivers for the HD3200 (the 780G) where all of the video acceleration features were actually working.

 

[freakcity999]



Quote:
Originally Posted by sneakerx /forum/post/15403253


Roll back to Catalyst 8.9. I'm pretty certain that those were the last drivers for the HD3200 (the 780G) where all of the video acceleration features were actually working.

I'll try as soon as the wife lets me have the TV, Thanks

 

[freakcity999]



Quote:
Originally Posted by sneakerx /forum/post/15403253


Roll back to Catalyst 8.9. I'm pretty certain that those were the last drivers for the HD3200 (the 780G) where all of the video acceleration features were actually working.

THANKS sneakerx! That did it! Weird because I tried the driver from the CD (8.3), the update through Foxconn's utility (8.5) and the latest (8.12) and all of them stuttered. Thanks again.

 

[freakcity999]



Quote:
Originally Posted by blue_z /forum/post/15401791


Hi there


You could try the Cyberlink video decoder. Get it from the K-Lite codec pack. Deselect everything, and only install the Cyberlink codec.


Are you using the Microsoft video decoder checkup utility (i.e. you should be)?


Regards

I actually am using the Cyberlink one right now, and I am using the decoder checkup. Turned out to be the Catalyst driver. Thanks

 

[sneakerx]

Glad it worked! ATI has a tendency to break things that were working perfectly when they put out new drivers. If you find a version that works stick with it.

 

[freakcity999]



Quote:
Originally Posted by sneakerx /forum/post/15406124


Glad it worked! ATI has a tendency to break things that were working perfectly when they put out new drivers. If you find a version that works stick with it.

Yeah, I learned that with the MSI K8NGM2-FID motherboard that this is replacing.