Ghosting after commercial skip

[Brian_W]

I'm having an issue while watching recorded programs that have been run through comskip. When the commercial comes on, I hit play on the remote to skip the commercial, and when the video plays again, there is a lot of ghosting whenever something moves on screen. To get rid of it, I have to press the FWD button twice, RWD button twice, pause, then play all in quick succession. 99% of the time this will get rid of the ghosting. I have a very fast system:

P4 3.0
1GB RAM
ATI 9550 256MB
NVIDIA PureVideo Decoders (with CSY's advice on configuring)
GBPVR w/ SQLite DB

Any suggestions? The wife isn't very happy about it hehe.

Brian

[JonnyCam]

Sorry - no suggestions, but I was wondering how you came up with your work-around solution! Enraged button mashing??
:p

[Brian_W]

lol ya pretty much. The picture is great until you press play to skip the commercial. Then bam, the ghosting effect. It was pretty much dumb luck that I found out how to stop it lol, but still annoying.

Brian

[Brian_W]

Its a trailing ghost effect whenever something moves on screen, and everything is fine until I press play to skip a commercial. When play resumes at the new start point,the ghosting happens, and the above mentioned remote sequence solves it until the next commercial.

Brian

[Brian_W]

That's what I was afraid of hearing hehe. I have read on here that the Nvidia decoders give the best picture quality so I have been trying to get them to work. Do you know of anything I can tweak or play with to try to avoid this? The picture quality with the Nvidia decoders are great. I have a copy of WinDVD, just haven't installed it yet for the InterVideo decoders. Thanks.

Brian

[sgilani]

I think OP might be suffering from the legendary quartz.dll problem.. look at the sticky "Disappointing MPEG2 decoding"...

as a quick test, try using VMR7 and see if you get the same problem or not. i'm hoping it'll be ok for you with vmr7

[votum76]

I had a similair issue but I got the ghosting all the time.
Maybe because my system is slower.
I use the nvidia decoders as well.
It seemed the be related to vrm9 when I went back to 7 everything started working beatifully.
maybe I will try the quartz.dll swap if I get a chance.

What advantages are there to using 9 over 7 . everything is working great with 7 for me

[Brian_W]

Sgilani

I changed to VMR7 and everything is looking ok. Played back 3 different recordings with commercials and there was no ghosting after a skip. What is different with VMR9 that would cause this? I didn't touch my video, audio decoders or my audio renderer, just the VMR. I don't really see a difference in picture quality between 9 and 7 (but I also just changed and haven't really paid a lot of attention) so is there anything that I will lose by using VMR7 or is this indicative of a problem elsewhere that I should investigate and solve? I read the thread on the quartz.dll fix, but apparently that seems to have been fixed with the dec 2005 patch MS released (I have not tried the quartz file replacement yet, I will do that later tonight to see if it works with the VMR9). Thanks for everyone's advice, gotta love community forums, everyone is very helpful.

Brian

[Brian_W]

Ok, I tried the quartz.dll file swap and whaddya know. It worked! Guess the patch MickeySoft (=X) released didn't solve everything. I did get a couple of videos where as I was trying to FFWD several times the OSD completely stopped responding, even hitting 'stop' wouldn't do anything, then after about 5-6 seconds it just dropped back to the recordings menu. Haven't been able to duplicate it since so it isn't looking like it is related. Now if I could get the live tv guide issue solved, everything will be cherry

Brian