DVDShrink Preview Window Greenish Color

[gonwk]

Hi folks,

I have used DVDShrink with XP SP2 and it was just fine.

Now that I have Vista Home Prem. SP1, 64-bit when I use the DVDShrink the Preview Screen has a light Green shade over the movie. This also happened on my Windows 2000 ... but I thought W2K just did not have all the right software.

The DVDShfrink only shows the Green shade in Preview ... when I try to view the Main Title. When the transcoding starts the picture is back to Normal. And the Transcode is Perfect.

Q: Can someone tell me how to fix this?

Thanks,

G!:)

[dat720]

This sounds more like a codec or a driver issue....
DVD Shrink works fine on Vista 64 for me.
Update your graphics card drivers and install ffdshow

[gonwk]

This sounds more like a codec or a driver issue....
DVD Shrink works fine on Vista 64 for me.
Update your graphics card drivers and install ffdshow

Hi dat720,

THANKS! I actually have ffdshow ... but I should update it ... 7 months old. I don't thnik my laptop GPU has any driver updates ... but I will check.

Thanks again,

G!:)

[gonwk]

Hi dat,

Just installed FFDSHOW r2639 and checked my ATI GPU drivers and are up to date ... But, did not fix my Greenish problem with DVDShrink!

Q1: BTW, this new version r2639 file sizes were smaller than my older one? I wonder if I needed to download a different version. I got my r2639 from SourceForge.

My laptop is Gateway M-6862 Silver model with T5750 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT PCI Express Graphics
512 MB GDDR3 Dedicated Memory

Any thoughts!!!

Thanks,

G!:)

[linyx]

I have the same problem (XP SP3), but I didn't really care enough to look into it:p. Interesting though.

[dat720]

if the output is fine then i personally wouldn't worry.

[gonwk]

Hi folks,

A friend from another Forum gave me the Answer that fixed my problem ... it is a "DirectX" problem ... so I did this and viola is fixed ...

Open DVDShrink > Edit > Preferences > Preview > Select DirectX Video Renderer ...

Under that pull-down menu the Default is "System Default Renderer" ... Change it to "Built-in Software Renderer"

Problem FIXED!

FYI, you can try the other options ... but I liked the built-in option as the best Renderer in my case.

If anyone else has some thoughts about this ... please post back .. since I am curious why DVDS would work with defaults setting just fine with Windows XP SP2 and not with the Almighty VISTA!?!?!?

Thanks,

G!:)

[dat720]

I don't think it's anything to do with Vista, i used Vista 32 for a long time then switched to 64bit and didn't experience any issues like that.

[gonwk]

I don't think it's anything to do with Vista, i used Vista 32 for a long time then switched to 64bit and didn't experience any issues like that.

Hi dat720,

Q1: Can you tell me what Codecs do you have on your computer!?!?

Q2: Have you installed osme other Programs that have built-in codecs in them? What I mean is the program installs some MPEG2 codecs for you!

Thanks,

G!:)

[dat720]

All i have installed is ffdshow!

I don't use any authoring packages that would have installed codecs, the players i use are VLC and mplayer, so no codecs there, and the only other real video editing app i use is AviDemux.... no codecs.

[Rich86]

I realize this is an old thread . . but . .
DVDShrink always worked just fine on my system (Windows 7/64 bit).
I updated DirectX in my system a while ago and sure enough the next time I tried to use DVDShrink, the preview window was all green.
The fix described above worked perfectly.