EVR on XP DVD Quirks

[Snooze]

Sorry to resurrect and old thread, but I was really happy with the results from EVR for livetv and recordings, even though I run XP SP3. This ffwd/rew pause freezing during DVD or ISO playback is acting exactly the same for me as described above.

I was wondering if anyone did actually get EVR and DVD playback ffw/rew and pause to work in XP? If so, would you mind offering some pointers? I uninstalled NVidia PureVideo decoder since it was noted it was problematic but it did not help, same freeze of PVRX2.

Thanks!

[PhilTheDoc]

I never made progress with this - had to use Cyberlink for Blu-ray playback and switched to using that for DVDs rather than GB-PVR -it does dolby digital without batting an eyelash, as well as Blu-ray. And it doesn't tear. Hours and hours of wasted time with GB-PVR and I never got it not to tear. (I have high hopes for Win7!) Also I got my Logitech Harmony One working with Cyberlink so all's good. Of course you have to change the PowerDVD skin to get rid of the terrifying woman with the teeth

[liteswap]

Same here with XP/EVR - everything else (PQ, jerkiness etc) works to total satisfaction - apart from navigation of video streams. It will jump forward/backwards eventually but it does so reluctantly, slowly and sometimes doesn't return control to the user at all...

...and before anyone suggests it, VMR9 has other (worse) issues I won't go into.

[Snooze]

Thanks for the feedback! Well, I been trying so hard to get it to work that I musta screwed up my codecs. I cannot use VMR9 Custom and get marginal results with a little tearing. It is real bad now in QAM and DVD's. So I am sticking with EVR and XP.

To get around the freezing during playback, I am going to try re-doing the keymapping file for the DVD to use Replay and Skip for Rew/FWD. Pause and Play I am going to remap to use Exit or Menu. Using Exit/Menu sends me to the DVD Menu so when I use play on the DVD menu again it resumes from where it left off

Thanks again for the replies! I didn't think it was possible with all the googling I did.

[Snooze]

I cannot redo the keymappings for DVD playback, can I?

[hoborg]

Guys, do not use EVR on XP (same with VMR9 on Vista/Win7), you will not get any DXVA but only troubles.

Rules are simple:

Win XP: VMR9/VMR9FSE
Vista/Win7: EVR

[Pob]

Guys, do not use EVR on XP (same with VMR9 on Vista/Win7), you will not get any DXVA but only troubles.

Rules are simple:

Win XP: VMR9/VMR9FSE
Vista/Win7: EVR

I agree. I was suprised to see this old thread I started resurrected. I have more up-to-date hardware now with XP and Win7 in dual boot, and I still prefer VMR9fse on XP to EVR in WIn7. Mainly because in EVR I can't view the full guide without stopping play first - the OSD in EVR feels clunky, like using the old overlay renderer in XP. I don't see any advantage to using EVR - picture quality is tip-top in VMR, but it's all in the eye of the beholder.

[Snooze]

My original question was if anyone got the DVD/ISO playback to fwd/rwd and pause in EVR, as did the original and other postings. This is not hardware related IMO, only the OS.

The point is I cannot get VMR9 Custom to work as it had after I tinkered with EVR. I cannot use VMR9 exclusive because I have custom plugins I do not want to give up. I feel the custom plugins fulfill my needs and I want to keep them. In VMR9 custom, I lost all my acceptable playback in QAM and DVD Playback.

I did not want to start another render/codec thread, there are plenty of them now.

Hoborg sent me a unlock on SAF so I am planning to try redo my codecs with his recommendations in hopes I do not have to start from a disk image from June, or a fresh install of an OS and GBPVR, and perhaps buying win7. I could have lived without full OSD if DVD/ISO playback wouldn't have halted if I hit a known remote button that freezes further UI. So i was wondering if there was a fix or a way to remove the mappings so the buttons could not be accidentally used. I am more worried that if someone is using my system and they freeze it, that they can do more harm by trying to unfreeze it before I get home.

FYI, for some reason, in XP the EVR renderer looks GREAT on my PC compared to any other render I tried. As I said I dont know what I did. I was only trying to remove the tearing in QAM and DVD, and I succeeded at it, but now I cannot revert to VMR9 Custom and live with the tearing (it was minor, but enough to make a person want to try to fix it). I will give up on the idea that this can be resolved. Thanks for the feedback.

[Pob]

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FYI, for some reason, in XP the EVR renderer looks GREAT on my PC compared to any other render I tried. As I said I dont know what I did. I was only trying to remove the tearing in QAM and DVD, and I succeeded at it, but now I cannot revert to VMR9 Custom and live with the tearing (it was minor, but enough to make a person want to try to fix it). I will give up on the idea that this can be resolved. Thanks for the feedback.

I am not so sure it's not hardware related. Believe me, at the time I made the OP tearing was the exact reason I was trying EVR - and there is no question that it was a lot better in EVR on the hardware I had then - an Athlon 2600, FX5900 GPU and DDR memory. But since getting an X2 athlon, 8800GS GPU (or ATIHD3450) and DDR2 memory, I can honestly say that I have not even thought about tearing once - it is a thing of the past that I had all but forgot.

[Snooze]

Yeah, I know my video card could use an upgrade and tearing would probably go away. I was so impressed that it cleared right up with EVR I was hoping to fix the DVD freeze and I would make a disk image and NEVER touch it again (yeah right) Regardless, I cannot revert to VMR9 Custom, so I got to work on that first. I am praying Hoborg's SAF will do the trick.