green pixels in dvd2avi, dshow problem?

[fatxy]

hi i have a new pc and have these strange green pixels when i load sth in dvd2avi or watching avis with ffdshow

sample pic
http://people.freenet.de/fatxy/pics/Snap1.jpg

i installed directx 9b and the latest catalyst driver for my radeon 9600pro

please help me

thanks in advance

[Nic]

Well DVD2AVI doesn't use DirectShow, it uses DirectDraw (as does the videorender on playback). So it's not a DirectShow Filter problem.

If I was to guess (and it is a guess) I'd say your graphic's card's memory is bad...do you play many 3d games? Do they work ok?

Hope that little bit of info will be of some use,
Cheers,
-Nic

[fatxy]

i tested this morning my old geforce2 again

and had this problems too :(

its really strange, everything else is workin perfect only this directdraw thingy

PS: maybe i forgot sth to inst? have powerdvd for mpeg2 decoding and directx9b and the latest catalyst, normally its enough i think

[Nic]

How strange....if your definitely getting it in DVD2AVI as well, then it's not a software thing, but a DirectX/Video Card/Driver/Hardware (memory) thing.

All I can suggest is trying different video drivers (older or newer)? (but seeing the GF2 card uses different drivers, I doubt it will help). Also try clicking Start->Run then typing dxdiag and hit OK to run the dxdiag tool. Clicking on the Display tab will allow you to turn off DirectDraw acceleration...to at least see if that narrows down the problem (but is no solution :( )

Otherwise, Im stumped too. Very strange. Do you get this with every type of movie (MPEG-1's as well), in PowerDVD and definitely in DVD2AVI? Any other weirdness with your computer?

-Nic

ps
See, normally green spots while playing something like an XviD movie, would mean you just have an old DShow filter for XviD. But if this happens with every type of movie and all Media Players(MPEG-1, DivX, etc), and definitely in DVD2AVI then it's nothing to do with filters. So please be 100% on which scenario it is.

[fatxy]

yap i have this defenitve in dvd2avi too, cause i made the snapshot of it

i checked several xvid, divx, wmv clips and a few vcd clips, all have the green pixels

the pixels dont appear steady only from time to time, i can watch for some minutes without ones but then again here they are ;)

but its always at the same timestamp!


below a summarize of my progs and tests

software:
progdvb 4.23
powerdvd 5
directx9b / 8.1
technotrend driver
dvd2avi
pvacut
pvastrumento 2.30
zplayer
winxp/w2k

workin without problems:
- viewing the recorded .pva in progdvb
- .mpg/.mpv (demuxed with pvastrumento) viewing in zplayer (videodecoder cyberlink)

not workin / green pixels
- .pva in pvacut
- .mpg/.mpv (demuxed with pvastrumento) in dvd2avi
- .mpg/.mpv (demuxed with pvastrumento) viewing in powerdvd (which is very strange, cause zplayer is workin fine with the cyberlink decoder )
- .avi (divx/xvid/wmv) in zplayer


the bad thing is, its not only a viewing error when i make a svcd or avi the green pixels are in there too

it seems i am the only with this kind of prob :/
ill check tommorrow pc ram maybe this will help


and thanks a lot to you nic giving me some suggestions! :)

[fatxy]

yeeehhaaaa :)

changing ddr ram channels helped (although i have 2 same modules)

no more green pixels!

great

regards

fatxy