Recordings Zoomed In Using Overlay Manager

[ryogajyc]

I've just started messing with GB-PVR this weekend, and I'm limited to using Overlay Manager if I want smooth HDTV playback. While viewing Live TV, everything looks fine. However, if I record a show and play it back, HDTV shows will show zoomed in, such that only see the upper-left quarter of the video. I've tried every Video Decoder I have installed and it seems to only play back at the correct zoom if I use VMR9 or VMR7, but will not playback smoothly. Any suggestions?

BTW, this is an amazing bit of software. I wish Dvico would provide as nice a PVR a solution.

Update:
Live TV also has this zoomed in funny business if the Video Decoder is set to System Default.

[sub]

It'll be your video decoder doing it. Try the zulu on that comes with the dvico software.

[ryogajyc]

The Zulu video decoder does the same thing. I've tried all of the video decoders that I have installed which include:
InterVideo Video Decoder
NVIDIA Video Decoder
Cyberlink Video/SP Decoder
Elecard MPEG2 Video Decoder
Zulu HDTV Video Decoder(BDA)
Nero Video Decoder

[sub]

Can you post your gbpvr.exe-native.log file?

[ryogajyc]

Thanks for the quick response and support. I've amended my list of Video Decoders if it is helpful. The run below was using Zulu HDTV Video Decoder(BDA) using Overlay Manager.

21:26:12.765 INFO Log started
21:26:12.765 VERBOSE getSetting(ShowClosedCaptions)
21:26:12.765 VERBOSE getSetting(UseFFDSHOW)
21:26:12.765 VERBOSE getSetting(EnableTeleText)
21:26:12.765 VERBOSE getSetting(HorizontalZoom)
21:26:12.765 VERBOSE Horizontal Zoom: 1.050000
21:26:12.765 VERBOSE getSetting(VerticalZoom)
21:26:12.765 VERBOSE Vertical Zoom: 1.000000
21:26:12.765 VERBOSE getSetting(HorizontalOffset)
21:26:12.765 VERBOSE Horizontal Offset: 0
21:26:12.765 VERBOSE getSetting(VerticalOffset)
21:26:12.765 VERBOSE Vertical Offset: 0
21:26:12.765 VERBOSE getSetting(LiveTVPrePlayDelay)
21:26:12.765 VERBOSE getSetting(OSDTransparency)
21:26:12.765 VERBOSE getSetting(AspectRatio0)
21:26:12.796 VERBOSE getSetting(AspectRatio1)
21:26:12.796 VERBOSE getSetting(AspectRatio2)
21:26:12.796 VERBOSE getSetting(AspectRatio3)
21:26:12.796 VERBOSE getSetting(AspectRatio4)
21:26:12.796 VERBOSE getSetting(AspectRatio5)
21:26:12.796 VERBOSE getSetting(AspectRatio6)
21:26:12.796 VERBOSE getSetting(AspectRatio7)
21:26:12.796 VERBOSE getSetting(AspectRatio8)
21:26:12.796 VERBOSE getSetting(TeletextRect)
21:26:12.796 VERBOSE MinimumFilePlaySize=200000
21:26:12.796 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerOverlay() initialising...
21:26:12.796 VERBOSE getSetting(OSDTransparency)
21:26:23.703 INFO DirectShowPlayerBase::playVideoFile(C:\Documents and Settings\Joseph\My Documents\My Videos\Stormchasers\Stormchasers_20051024_00450145.dvr-ms)
21:26:23.718 VERBOSE Creating new graph
21:26:23.765 VERBOSE getSetting(PreferredAudioRenderer)
21:26:28.078 VERBOSE getSetting(ListGraphFilters)
21:26:28.078 VERBOSE Graph contains the following filters:
21:26:28.078 VERBOSE - Video Renderer 0004
21:26:28.078 VERBOSE - Default DirectSound Device
21:26:28.078 VERBOSE - AC3Filter
21:26:28.078 VERBOSE - Video Renderer
21:26:28.078 VERBOSE - App Overlay Source
21:26:28.078 VERBOSE - Elecard MPEG2 Video Decoder
21:26:28.078 VERBOSE - C:\Documents and Settings\Joseph\My Documents\My Videos\Stormchasers\Stormchasers_20051024_00450145.dvr-ms
21:26:28.078 VERBOSE getSetting(SaveGraphFiles)
21:26:28.203 INFO DirectShowPlayerBase::playFile() done
21:26:28.203 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase::setPlaybackRate(1.000000)
21:26:28.203 VERBOSE Restoring audio

Hm, that's interesting. The log seems to indicate I'm using the Elecard decoder even though the configuration is set to Zulu.

[sub]

The logs show its using the elecard video decoder. I have seen this decoder do something like you describe. Try disabling it.

[ryogajyc]

Disabling it seems to work. I'm now using the Nvidia decoder runs more smoothly with lower CPU utilization and with better deinterlacing.

When you say disable, is there a way to disable/configure decoders? I can't seem to find a standard way of messing with their configuration aside from the GBPVR configuration utility. I just uninstalled the Elecard decoder to "disable" it.

Thanks!