FFDSHOW overlay turned off when using vsfilter's 'extend to 4:3'

[moganc]

Yesterday while i was watching a video my pc suddenly froze (but the sound of the video kept on playing, but that's a different issue).
Anyway, after a reset i noticed that now when i play a video and vsfilter is set to 'extend to 4:3' on widescreen videos (so i can watch the subtitles on the black lines) the overlay properties of FFDSHOW seems to not work. if during playback i get into ffdshow configuration and set the overlay off then on, it works again but reopening the file turns it back off . when setting vsfilter to normal or disabling it altogether the overlay will work fine. also in files that are already 4:3 the overlay works. I've already reinstalled both vsfilter and ffdshow but to no avail. any ideas on how to fix it?

[foxyshadis]

I'd update/reinstall your video drivers. Sounds like something went wonky in them, and not so much in the codecs. (Maybe the player, but I'm guessing not.)

[moganc]

thanx i'll try that.

[moganc]

okay, didn't work. also before i reinstalled the drivers i noticed a new issue: some of the times, after i watch a video, when i close the player the computer hangs for a few seconds, then my screen goes black for a second and then everything's back to normal. any thoughts?

[CWR03]

It's probably changing resolution or color quality settings. Check the settings while you're playing a video, and again without.

[moganc]

no, that's not it. i know this player (MPC) like the back of my hand, and it's in all the normal settings. i'm starting to fear it's a hardware issue (graphic card :( )

[foxyshadis]

It does unfortunately sound that way - the other behavior that would cause this is VPU recover, if it's ATI. (Which is basically a recoverable driver crash.) If you turn off VPU recover, it'll blue screen instead. One possibility is that it has to do with the pixel shaders, but that's an odd thing to suddenly break. A bank of on-card memory might have gone bad, suddenly. I don't know much about video card problems, though, honestly.

Have you tried running 3dmark, just to see if that causes crashes as well?

[moganc]

hav'nt tried it yet, but now it seems pretty obvious that it's a hardware issue since i've been starting to get these black screens randomly with no connection to video watching. thanx anyway...

[moganc]

okay, it's been a month. i bought a new graphic card, no more black screens but the original problems still stands - overlay goes away when extending to 4:3. i don't get. when i downgrade to an old ffdshow the problem goes away but those old versions don't support some h.264 files i'm playing. it's killing me!:eek: