flickering black box

[neo squidward]

When I encode anything to mpeg2 I get a flickering black box in the bottom right corner of the video when in windowed mode and in the center when in full screen when I play it with MPC. The black box isnt there when I play the mpeg2 in PowerDVD and its not there when I view it with GSPOT. It does this with mpeg2s created with both HC017 and CCE.

Another weird thing about it is that when I try to use GSPOTs test on the bottom clicking 1 under Vid column gives me "unable to render the video" but clicking 1 under A/V will play it (without the flickering box) and says using [Src]->[Nero Video Decoder]->[A]->[Video Renderer]

[Mug Funky]

what is being used (in MPC) to decode the video? is it using its internal decoder?

[neo squidward]

In options > playback > output I use VMR9(renderless) and for internal filters I have them all checked in source and transform filters except matroska.

[Mug Funky]

hmm. i'm out of ideas. try disabling MPC's native decoding and see if that helps. or you could try output thru overlay mixer (faster anyway). as a long (very long) shot you could update your viddy card drivers.

[neo squidward]

If I use the other output I get a ActiveMovie window that is very annoying. How do i get rid of it?

[neo squidward]

Just found out it only flickers when MPC starts with "Keep aspect ratio" checked. If I start with that unchecked then check it, it will play without the flicker.