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ATI video playback defective--Suggestions??
Have finally isolated my problem to the ATI video playback. Symptoms
are image pixelating and then freezing. Occurs at any point from a few minutes to two hours or more. The .vcr files play perfectly in Windows Media Player from beginning to end, hence my conclusion that problem is ATI playback software and not the .vcr file itself. Unfortunately Media Player is not controllable by Remote Wonder II. Does anyone have any suggestions how to fix this problem. Any help appreciated. Jack. |
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"Jack" wrote in message
newsqyFd.15556$B95.5957@lakeread02... Have finally isolated my problem to the ATI video playback. Symptoms are image pixelating and then freezing. Occurs at any point from a few minutes to two hours or more. The .vcr files play perfectly in Windows Media Player from beginning to end, hence my conclusion that problem is ATI playback software and not the .vcr file itself. Unfortunately Media Player is not controllable by Remote Wonder II. Does anyone have any suggestions how to fix this problem. Any help appreciated. Jack. What version of the display drivers and MMC are you using? Do you have DX9, Windows Media Encoder 9 and ATI Decoder installed? If these are installed try doing a Repair on MMC. HTH |
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T Shadow wrote:
"Jack" wrote in message newsqyFd.15556$B95.5957@lakeread02... Have finally isolated my problem to the ATI video playback. Symptoms are image pixelating and then freezing. Occurs at any point from a few minutes to two hours or more. The .vcr files play perfectly in Windows Media Player from beginning to end, hence my conclusion that problem is ATI playback software and not the .vcr file itself. Unfortunately Media Player is not controllable by Remote Wonder II. Does anyone have any suggestions how to fix this problem. Any help appreciated. Jack. What version of the display drivers and MMC are you using? Do you have DX9, Windows Media Encoder 9 and ATI Decoder installed? If these are installed try doing a Repair on MMC. HTH The following have been installed, not necessarily in order of appearance: w2k-ccc-8-082-041130a-etc... mmc-9-03-0-0 mmc-9-1-0-0-dao-mdac WME 9 ATI decoder (latest) Directx 9c Remote Wonder 2-5-0-0 TV capture-wdm-6-14-10-6246 All have been reinstalled several times. Have even done clean install of W2k and installed only basic apps plus ATI CD drivers only; results same. Added each update, one at a time; same results. Windows Media Player shows the same breaking up and freezing so now I'm not sure if it is the ..vcr file which is defective or the playback. Sometimes the breakup starts after a few minutes and sometimes after two to three hours but appears to be somewhat consistent for each vcr file. Thanks for coming back with some ideas. ATI tech has been useless. Guess I'll just have to keep experimenting. Jack. |
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"Jack" wrote in message
news:7NOFd.16264$B95.7622@lakeread02... T Shadow wrote: "Jack" wrote in message newsqyFd.15556$B95.5957@lakeread02... Have finally isolated my problem to the ATI video playback. Symptoms are image pixelating and then freezing. Occurs at any point from a few minutes to two hours or more. The .vcr files play perfectly in Windows Media Player from beginning to end, hence my conclusion that problem is ATI playback software and not the .vcr file itself. Unfortunately Media Player is not controllable by Remote Wonder II. Does anyone have any suggestions how to fix this problem. Any help appreciated. Jack. What version of the display drivers and MMC are you using? Do you have DX9, Windows Media Encoder 9 and ATI Decoder installed? If these are installed try doing a Repair on MMC. HTH The following have been installed, not necessarily in order of appearance: w2k-ccc-8-082-041130a-etc... mmc-9-03-0-0 mmc-9-1-0-0-dao-mdac WME 9 ATI decoder (latest) Directx 9c Remote Wonder 2-5-0-0 TV capture-wdm-6-14-10-6246 All have been reinstalled several times. Have even done clean install of W2k and installed only basic apps plus ATI CD drivers only; results same. Added each update, one at a time; same results. Windows Media Player shows the same breaking up and freezing so now I'm not sure if it is the .vcr file which is defective or the playback. Sometimes the breakup starts after a few minutes and sometimes after two to three hours but appears to be somewhat consistent for each vcr file. Thanks for coming back with some ideas. ATI tech has been useless. Guess I'll just have to keep experimenting. Jack. Make sure you have the latest M/B chipset drivers and DMA turned on. Try using the Cat uninstaller. Then install the individual drivers(in low speed d/l section) starting with the WDM capture drivers(per release notes), display drivers and control panel. Don't install CCC. Then dao-mdac, decoder and MMC. Order of installation is important. HTH |
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The following have been installed, not necessarily in order of appearance: w2k-ccc-8-082-041130a-etc... mmc-9-03-0-0 mmc-9-1-0-0-dao-mdac WME 9 ATI decoder (latest) Try using the Cat uninstaller. Then install the individual drivers(in low speed d/l section) starting with the WDM capture drivers(per release notes), display drivers and control panel. Don't install CCC. Then dao-mdac, decoder and MMC. Order of installation is important. HTH Thanks, I have done a complete ATI uninstall and will try the order of installation you suggest and w/o CCC. Jack. |
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Try using the Cat uninstaller. Then install the individual drivers(in low
speed d/l section) starting with the WDM capture drivers(per release notes), display drivers and control panel. Don't install CCC. Then dao-mdac, decoder and MMC. Order of installation is important. HTH Following your install suggestions appears to have corrected the problems. Thanks for your patience and help. Jack. |
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"Jack" wrote in message
news:Ot8Gd.17308$B95.5026@lakeread02... Try using the Cat uninstaller. Then install the individual drivers(in low speed d/l section) starting with the WDM capture drivers(per release notes), display drivers and control panel. Don't install CCC. Then dao-mdac, decoder and MMC. Order of installation is important. HTH Following your install suggestions appears to have corrected the problems. Thanks for your patience and help. Jack. Great, your welcome. |
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What file are you playing when you see the break up then freezing of
the picture? If you change the capture save features to avi what happens when you play back the entire file of if you change the setting to MPEG 1 or 2? If you are playing back a DVD or VCD that you burned from the original capture file, which you say is OK, the problem is in burning and rendering process NOT the player or the card. Define what file you are playing back and on what medium then reask the question. On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:43:03 -0500, Jack wrote: Have finally isolated my problem to the ATI video playback. Symptoms are image pixelating and then freezing. Occurs at any point from a few minutes to two hours or more. The .vcr files play perfectly in Windows Media Player from beginning to end, hence my conclusion that problem is ATI playback software and not the .vcr file itself. Unfortunately Media Player is not controllable by Remote Wonder II. Does anyone have any suggestions how to fix this problem. Any help appreciated. Jack. |
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Jack,
If you are now saying the vcr file (captured file) is breaking up you have a capture problem simply. You need to reduce the capture file setting to lower resoulution (this is not necessarily lower quality, expecially if your end result is a DVD) Caution, when you start re-installing drivers you really need to be very careful as ATI installs do not necessairly overwirte previous installations as if they were never there. You may end up re-installing every ATI component just to get things back to normal, if certain other parts of the ATI or MMC get broken. I suggest that you lower the resolution settings, capture again, then watch the playback using other programs to play back the capture video to determine if you indeed have a capture problem as I suspect. On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:06:06 GMT, "T Shadow" wrote: "Jack" wrote in message news:7NOFd.16264$B95.7622@lakeread02... T Shadow wrote: "Jack" wrote in message newsqyFd.15556$B95.5957@lakeread02... Have finally isolated my problem to the ATI video playback. Symptoms are image pixelating and then freezing. Occurs at any point from a few minutes to two hours or more. The .vcr files play perfectly in Windows Media Player from beginning to end, hence my conclusion that problem is ATI playback software and not the .vcr file itself. Unfortunately Media Player is not controllable by Remote Wonder II. Does anyone have any suggestions how to fix this problem. Any help appreciated. Jack. What version of the display drivers and MMC are you using? Do you have DX9, Windows Media Encoder 9 and ATI Decoder installed? If these are installed try doing a Repair on MMC. HTH The following have been installed, not necessarily in order of appearance: w2k-ccc-8-082-041130a-etc... mmc-9-03-0-0 mmc-9-1-0-0-dao-mdac WME 9 ATI decoder (latest) Directx 9c Remote Wonder 2-5-0-0 TV capture-wdm-6-14-10-6246 All have been reinstalled several times. Have even done clean install of W2k and installed only basic apps plus ATI CD drivers only; results same. Added each update, one at a time; same results. Windows Media Player shows the same breaking up and freezing so now I'm not sure if it is the .vcr file which is defective or the playback. Sometimes the breakup starts after a few minutes and sometimes after two to three hours but appears to be somewhat consistent for each vcr file. Thanks for coming back with some ideas. ATI tech has been useless. Guess I'll just have to keep experimenting. Jack. Make sure you have the latest M/B chipset drivers and DMA turned on. Try using the Cat uninstaller. Then install the individual drivers(in low speed d/l section) starting with the WDM capture drivers(per release notes), display drivers and control panel. Don't install CCC. Then dao-mdac, decoder and MMC. Order of installation is important. HTH |
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