problem with ffdshow and overlay mixer [Archive]

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29th March 2005, 20:18

Hello,

I posted this in ffdshow dev thread, but it got burried without being noticed, so I hope noone will mind too bad that I repost it as separate thread..

I have some tough problems.. ever since version 200305XX or something like that, if I try to play file using ffdshow and output set to overlay mixer (using MPC in this case), all I get is gray screen. Now if I go to video driver setup, and check the saturation slider, I see (attached pic). Why does ffdshow mess up my saturation slider, thus messing up whole video? :(

ty

http://dreamy.ws/images/mpc/overlay2.gif

Leo 69

29th March 2005, 21:25

What videocard are you using ? Anyway be sure to install the latest official drivers for it... 71.84 as far as I know for yours one.

29th March 2005, 22:42

Im using 71.84 now, tried way back to 56.72, but that didnt help. The only way to make it work is to use pre 200305 ffdshow, and that's old..

2nd April 2005, 18:32

does anyone have any other ideas?

namchik

5th April 2005, 15:59

Does this happen with ffdshow only? What about DivX or XviD decoder?
Also did you try VMR 7/9 instead of Overlay Mixer?

5th April 2005, 19:11

it happens with xvid aswell. happens with vmr7 (i guess because it picks up overlay in some cases), but not with vmr9..

7th May 2005, 22:11

guys, i still haven't been able to solve this problem, and im really out of ideas now - happens with xvid and ffdshow, happens with mpc versions way back to 2003.. what could cause it :(

*.mp4 guy

7th May 2005, 23:31

I've gotten some weirdness from FFdshow when using my overlay mixer recently aswell, I usually just use VMR9 so its not a huge problem, my video card is a Radeon 9600 pro. My drivers are up to date, just thought I would mention that I have had some similar problems that seem to be FFdshow related, on my pc I just get a black screen when using the overlay mixer and the video players starts getting problems with fullscreen mode.

8th May 2005, 10:40

Recently it started to set saturation to 0% instead of that weird number, but that still messes it up! :(

MacAddict

12th May 2005, 12:05

Havent seen the saturation problem but I have seen almost like an interlaced effect when I go to fullscreen. VMR seems to work fine although it uses slightly more resources from the PC.

23rd May 2005, 07:47

i hate those kind of quirks, were noone else ever had them, so you cant even hope for a fix (save for reinstalling windows, which gets somewhat dull if you have to do it each quarter)..

thed33p

23rd May 2005, 13:50

save for reinstalling windows, which gets somewhat dull if you have to do it each quarter

In which case Ghost (http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/features.html) is your friend! To re-ghost my rig (complete with all programs, drivers, custom setups etc) takes about 12 minutes :D

23rd May 2005, 15:10

yeah, but you first have to make one good setup. before i even finish installing all my stuff i find out that somethings wrong, and cant already use it as base for future installations :(

9th June 2005, 19:33

if it helps any, it only happens with YV12/Y*/U* modes, works fine with RGB :/

bill_baroud

10th June 2005, 08:36

definitly something fishy with your graphic card .... do you use the latest DirectX ? well, i don't know, perhaps you need DX9.c ?

10th June 2005, 14:01

definitly something fishy with your graphic card .... do you use the latest DirectX ? well, i don't know, perhaps you need DX9.c ?

yep, everything latest here.. dx, drivers, sp..

nmap

23rd June 2005, 09:38

yep, everything latest here.. dx, drivers, sp..

Do you have Windows 2003? I have the exact problem. If you set your overlay to the default settings and enable it, you should be able to bypass this problem in overlay. (This is through FFDShow btw)

The issue with the vid card settings, looks like you have an nvidia card, will always be there until I find a solution to that :confused:.

Bright 700
Sat 10000
Contrast 10000
Gamma 1
Hue 0

If you do find one please PM me.

23rd June 2005, 14:36

yes! w2k3 here! finally someone with same problem as me.. it's actually not that much of a problem, cause i can use other renderers just as good, but it's annoying to have such problem..

Chris Benoit

26th June 2005, 01:39

me too guys win 2k3 same problem with ffdshow,any solution yet?

Well setting the values above seem to work,thanx man.What about sharpness though?What shall i put it?

nmap

27th June 2005, 12:45

I've got 0, and it looks fine to me.

Also from what I've been told this is an issue with the OS rather than FFDShow. So I don't quite think there's much that's going to change. I could be wrong... but eh.