Video distortion PDVD 7.1 King Kong off HDD

[Deusfaux]

(nobody addressed this in the specific problems thread after several days)

Using Powerdvd 7.1 on an ATI X1900XTX with Catalyst 7.2, only have King Kong to play with. backed up HD-dvd fine, fixed IME issues fine, but HDDVD playback is still messed up (video wise). It's very distorted and off center. Even when i make the window bigger, its the same amount of picture seen.

I think the screenshot will explain everything though:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/deusfaux/hddvd.jpg

What is going on?

[blutach]

Is this a Decrypting issue or playback one. Seems lots of people have successfully decrypted KK.

Regards

[Deusfaux]

Is this a Decrypting issue or playback one. Seems lots of people have successfully decrypted KK.

Regards



Well I dont know. Knowing why the issue was there would bring me a little bit closer to fixing it.


Could be related to how I decrypted it, just like there were other issues with playback before I learned how to solve those IME problems. Maybe I'm doing something else wrong.

Hopefully one of the many people who have successfully decrypyted KK and played it back can give me some assistance

[sidekick2]

I'm going to guess that you have an Nvidia video card and either AA or some other quality setting turned on. I had the same issue with 2x and 4x aa enabled. The higher the "AA" the higher the magnification you'll see in powerdvd. Just drop your quality settings back to normal and it'll probably work right.

[Deusfaux]

ATI X1900XTX with Catalyst 7.2 drivers, no special settings like AA turned on either..

[jokin]

Is the rip on your OS drive or another drive that might be a slow RPM drive or really fragmented?

[Deusfaux]

OS drive, twin Raptor 150's in RAID 0

[jkenzie]

Have you tried reinstalling your video drivers?
I had a similar problem with Nividia drivers (magnified upper 25%). The problem occured after I made some changes in the Nvidia control panel. I can't remember exactly what those changes were but undoing them would not correct the problem it caused. Ultimately I was forced to reinstall my video drivers and everything was fine after that.
Have you tried uninstalling both your drivers and Powerdvd?
I don't think Powerdvd plays well with others sometimes and I don't think this is a decryption problem.

[bob0r]

Does powerdvd 7.3 solve this problem?

[dreggman]

Deusfaux - I am experiencing the exact SAME problem. I have ATI X1600PRO with Catalyst 7.2 Drivers. I originally had PowerDVD 6.5 and tried to play Apollo 13 from hd-dvd disc. It played but I had the same "distorted - zoomed in and to the left" problem your picture shows.

Then I used AnyDVD to rip the image to my Hard Drive - it copied fine and then it played - with the same distorted problem.

Then I upgraded to PowerDVD Ultra 7.2 - same problem!

Then I got Cyberlink Support to send me the patch to 7.3 (whcih gave me the abilty to select HD or Blu-Ray with one install) - same problem.

I unistalled the catalyst drivers and unistalled PowerDVD and then rebooted and rebooted and reinstalled both - same problem!!!

I even tried adjusting the Hardware Acceleration level for the Video Card. I tried every single level - including turning it off completely. Each adjustment either resulted in the same problem or PowerDVD not playing the movie at all and crashing.

I am pulling my hair out and i am convinced it is a problem with the PowerDVD Application and these ATI catalyst drivers.

I even tried to directly play the individual EVO files on the disc in other applications - VLC Player can play the MPEG2 encoded EVO files fine but cannot play the VC-1 encoded EVO Files. The funny thing is that when I try and play the MPEG2 EVO Files in PowerDVD it also gives me the same general problem - distorted - zoomed in and slightly to the left, but when I play regular DVDs in PowerDVD it works fine and those are MPEG-2 Files- makes no sense.

There has to be a solution to this problem - PLEASE - someone help!!!

Thanks.

[Momotte]

try previous version of the catalyst driver as I have the same hardware on one of my system and everything works fine...

Use the ATI utility to take everything off, reboot and perform a clean install... some residues must be staying on your system.

oh, yes, do not forget to install the latest directx

[dreggman]

Well after racking my brains for several weeks - I have finally resolved this error. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling everything - PowerDVD, Catalyst Drivers, Previous Versions, etc. None of that worked.

What finally got rid of the zoomed in distortion was CHANGING THE RESOLUTION OF THE MONITOR. I have a 30-inch Dell and had the resolution set to 2560x1600. If I changed the monitor to ANY other resolution - 2048x1536, 1920x1080, 1920x1200, etc. PowerDVD would play the HD-DVD crystal clear. But for some reason it will not render HD-DVDs properly at the monitor's native resolution of 2560x1600. It will play regular DVDs fine when set to 2560x1600 - but not HD-DVDs.

I am not sure if this is a BUG with PowerDVD or ATI Catalyst Drivers?? Who should I report it to?

Is there a tool or plugin I could use that would automatically change the video res to 1920x1200 when i launch PowerDVD and change it back to 2560x1600 when i quit it???


Thanks for all of your input and ideas.

Gregg

[KoD]

You should report it to ATi. But I can already tell you it will probably be a hardware limitation and nothing can be done. This happens when you resize no matter what video to something larger than 2048 (try using ffdshow's resizer on any file you might have - xvid, divx, avc, vp6, mpg, whatever - and see what happens when resizing to widths larger than 2048)

[dreggman]

The ironic thing is - that the picture is distorted even if it is not resized to full screen under 2560x1600 - look at the picture at the top of the thread. That is what makes no sense!

[Momotte]

this is probably related to the DVI DUAL-LINK necessary to drive your monitor... I think there were problem related to that in an article I read...

[KoD]

Well, if you pause playback in PowerDVD while you see something in fullscreen and then switch to windowed, sometimes the image will be distorted just like that even when watching a DVD. I know beacuse I experienced this myself. And I have a CRT monitor. Resuming playback while windowed will show a proper image again.

So, 2 bugs: one possibly in PowerDVD, another with the video card.

[dreggman]

I have confirmed that this BUG also exists when playing Blu-Ray movies as well as HD-DVD. I picked up a SONY BWU-100A drive this weekend. Total Recall, Terminator 2 and Talladega Nights all play fine in PowerDVD Ultra 7.3 only if the screen resolution is set to 1900x1200. If I increase to 2560x1600 (native of my 30 inch Dell) - I get the same distorted zoomed in image I got with HD-DVD movies at the resolution.

I am using the PowerStrip Ulitity to have the res automatically change to 1900x1200 when PowerDVD launches.

By the way - having now played both Blu-Ray movies and HD-DVD movies on my system - I have to say I think HD-DVDs are much better picture wise. Movie selection is better on Blu-Ray as there seem to be more titles availible. But on quality alone, I have been much more impressed with HD-DVDs

[Deusfaux]

I'd like to follow up with this

How would I find out where the problem lies and who to contact about this?

Is it a Dell thing? Does anyone else have any other brands of 30"s?

Is it a Cyberlink thing? Problem in PowerDVD?

Is it an ATI thing? Problem in the Catalyst drivers?


Should I just contact them all?

[mlansell]

I'd like to follow up with this

How would I find out where the problem lies and who to contact about this?

Is it a Dell thing? Does anyone else have any other brands of 30"s?

Is it a Cyberlink thing? Problem in PowerDVD?

Is it an ATI thing? Problem in the Catalyst drivers?


Should I just contact them all?


I suspect it's a PowerDVD thing. From the screenshot it looks like they can't handle resolutions higher than the 1920x1080 of the movie - instead a section of the movie of size (width-1920) x (height-1080) is scaled to fit the screen.

It's as if they've subtracted the screen size from the movie size but not checked for negative values.

[Deusfaux]

Ok now this is weird.

I hadnt visited this issue in months.

Since then I'm on newer drivers (7.5), and a newer version of (PowerDVD 7.3)

Possibly one of those things

OR

the fact that this rip was now done with AnyDVD

means I can watch undistorted @ 2560x1600 desktop.




Hmmm. I could always drop down PowerDVD version and definitively see what caused it - but nevertheless it works and I'm happy.


Side note: How can you tell what resolution you're running the movie at?

I don't see any controls or settings to blow up the movie to 1080p and no smaller or bigger.

Furthermore how can I tell I'm even getting a 1080P signal? I mean I think I am but I want something telling me I am so I know for sure.