Well, its a long weekend, and I expect to have at least a few hours each morning to try to screw my HTCP up royally before I start bbq'in and drinking beer.
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My goal, to play DVD's with Zoom Player, with DD and DTS SPDIF, with Windows XP. I had previously been using PowerDVD XP with no problems, and had been very happy, until I saw how good the pic looks with ATI/Ravisent!! There are numerous threads going on, and I have seen several people posting lately about audio/video sync problems, that is the problem I am having. I really don't care which audio filters I end up using, I have the choice of PowerDVD XP, Ravisent/ATI 7.5 or 7.6 (or some older ones on CD), and WinDVD 2000 or 3.1.
My equipment
Athlon XP 1500+/ShuttleAK31A 512M DDR
Radeon AIW 64DDR (says 7200 in XP), not planning on using anything but the output, no capture
MAudio Delta DIO 24/96
I am using the SPDIF from the card, haven't tried the ATI card SPDIF out, but I suppose I could after all of this
I will add my IOMAgic PVR into the mix after the rest is working.
My plan:
Pull all cards but the video card, disable APM in the bios, and do a clean install of XP. Get the networking and a few configuration items set.
Ghost it NOW!!
Install ATI Drivers (1st try, I am going to use the latest, latest drivers, but if I have problems, I have the 6025 drivers too, ghost back, and try those)
Install Dio and use latest drivers 5.10.27, I also have the earlier ones, and the VxD ones, same philosophy, use ghost if necessary)
For each driver combination, try various combinations of ZP with ATI MMC/DVD for video, alone 1st, then PowerDVD audio, then WinDVD next, re-ghost when necessary.
Hopefully, I will hit on a combination where ZP can use the Ravisent for Video, and some audio filter that will play in sync with it, in PCM, DD, and DTS!!
If anyone has any other ideas, or a winning combination for Windows XP, please feel free to pass them along! I have read, searched, read some more, and most of the threads end up with "yeah, I have sync problems" without much resolution
!!
I know my system is not "clean", it has had a Geforce TNT2 and a Creative Live in it, and used to be my general purpose PC, with a CDBurner, and lots of video crap (TMPGENC, PVR s/w, DVD "backup" s/w
, etc) XP seems to handle the drivers well, but there could be some residual crap hanging around!!
Plan B, try ME (don't want to do that, I really like XP, you really don't have to do much but install it!!). Guess I'll leave a 4G partition for an "alternative" os though.
TIA
da_burl
My goal, to play DVD's with Zoom Player, with DD and DTS SPDIF, with Windows XP. I had previously been using PowerDVD XP with no problems, and had been very happy, until I saw how good the pic looks with ATI/Ravisent!! There are numerous threads going on, and I have seen several people posting lately about audio/video sync problems, that is the problem I am having. I really don't care which audio filters I end up using, I have the choice of PowerDVD XP, Ravisent/ATI 7.5 or 7.6 (or some older ones on CD), and WinDVD 2000 or 3.1.
My equipment
Athlon XP 1500+/ShuttleAK31A 512M DDR
Radeon AIW 64DDR (says 7200 in XP), not planning on using anything but the output, no capture
MAudio Delta DIO 24/96
I am using the SPDIF from the card, haven't tried the ATI card SPDIF out, but I suppose I could after all of this
I will add my IOMAgic PVR into the mix after the rest is working.
My plan:
Pull all cards but the video card, disable APM in the bios, and do a clean install of XP. Get the networking and a few configuration items set.
Ghost it NOW!!
Install ATI Drivers (1st try, I am going to use the latest, latest drivers, but if I have problems, I have the 6025 drivers too, ghost back, and try those)
Install Dio and use latest drivers 5.10.27, I also have the earlier ones, and the VxD ones, same philosophy, use ghost if necessary)
For each driver combination, try various combinations of ZP with ATI MMC/DVD for video, alone 1st, then PowerDVD audio, then WinDVD next, re-ghost when necessary.
Hopefully, I will hit on a combination where ZP can use the Ravisent for Video, and some audio filter that will play in sync with it, in PCM, DD, and DTS!!
If anyone has any other ideas, or a winning combination for Windows XP, please feel free to pass them along! I have read, searched, read some more, and most of the threads end up with "yeah, I have sync problems" without much resolution
!!
I know my system is not "clean", it has had a Geforce TNT2 and a Creative Live in it, and used to be my general purpose PC, with a CDBurner, and lots of video crap (TMPGENC, PVR s/w, DVD "backup" s/w
Plan B, try ME (don't want to do that, I really like XP, you really don't have to do much but install it!!). Guess I'll leave a 4G partition for an "alternative" os though.
TIA
da_burl