Radeon + MPEG-2 + TV-Out

[InfoCynic]

I have a Radeon 8500 (built by) and am just pounding my head against the wall trying to get MPEG-2 working decently over tv-out (S-Video). First it was the old standby Cyberlink (powerdvd xp) filters. These work great on the monitor, but I have to turn hardware acceleration off for it to display anything on the TV (just has blank screen otherwise). This seemed silly, and it also seemed like it wasn't compensating for the 3:2 pulldown in the SVCD correctly. Elecard worked on both displays, but the motion was terrible... it didn't want to perform inverse telecine, it seems. Ravisent (sp) was the same as Cyberlink. I've yet to try InterVideo / WinDVD, but hopefully in the morning. Ultimately I just got so frustrated that I built an AVS with a d2v, crop/resize and and AudioDub for wav audio and watched it with no trouble on the TV. All this was done using ZoomPlayer (Pro) 3.1 beta 2, using the Overlay Mixer (VMR9 slows my system to a dead crawl). Any other Radeon users out there have any good advice for this?

[jonny]

These work great on the monitor, but I have to turn hardware acceleration off for it to display anything on the TV (just has blank screen otherwise).

Same thing on 9500, but if i switch the desktop to 16bit, powerdvd output on tv works correctly with hardware acceleration on.
I'm still making experiments on tv out (i'm not 100% happy with the radeon tvout, my old gf2mx400+tvtool seems to work still better!)

[symonjfox]

Instead my Radeon 8500 doesn't see that I've a TV installed :(
I can't turn it on!

Then using Non Catalyst drivers I could use Hardware acceleration with Power DVD, from Catalyst to now ... nothing at all ... only software mode.

With WinDVD I've no problem.

[Xayd]

Odd, I would think it might be a PAL issue, I have no problems doing what you describe with my setup (Radeon 1 VIVO, NTSC 27" TV, using both SVCD mpeg files and files I've captured myself to mpeg 2).

Do you happen to have the ATI control panel add-on installed? It adds a TV output settings dialog under display/advanced/monitors where you can specify your TV type and tweak the output a bit.

[Asmodian]

I hope this actually helps you.
First make sure your TV is on when you boot your computer. The hardware acceleration only works on the primary monitor (as set in the display tab of the video drivers). I have not noticed any problems with setting the TV as the primary display, except that then you can't see the video on your monitor. If you use the VMR9 modes (ie not hardware overlay) then the video will display on both displays.
Please tell me how this works...