I'm bummed

***sub*** · 2006-11-23, 05:23 AM

Quote:i already added it as a video folder, no ready recordings

What he meant was that they would then be accessible via the Video Library (not the Recordings screen).

TornadoTJ · 2006-11-23, 05:25 AM

Gotcha.

OK, with the newest drivers and a total reload, live video (no time shift) has gone down the crapper. It is FAR worse than before. I will try to load the old drivers they recommended, but I fear it's going to be a struggle.

I'm going to keep trying, I'm sure there must be some others running ATI stuff out there, and there must be a solution.

TornadoTJ · 2006-11-23, 05:32 AM

OK, as said, I can see the videos in the library. I opened an HD recording that jittered before, and so far it is beautiful. No jittrering, no pixelation, it looks great. Strange that the recordings are great now but the live TV is far worse.

I am about to open another recording that jittered really bad earlier to see how it looks.

TornadoTJ · 2006-11-23, 05:33 AM

by the way, one complaint I had was that the video wasn't filling the screen, I had some border... that's fixed with the reload.

TornadoTJ · 2006-11-23, 05:36 AM

OK, with a big time HD show, there's slight jitter. No pixellation like before, no bad artifacts, but some jitter. Performance Monitor shows GBPR at 99%, and it appears it'd take more if it had the oipportunity. This didn't happen before. Any ideas? I feel I'm close to it being great for recording...

TornadoTJ · 2006-11-23, 05:44 AM

I noticed that my SDTV recordings are .MPG, and the HDTV are DVR.MS. The only reason I bring this up is that some of the .ms files work in WMP but some don't.

The other reason is that it appears that WMP is struggling to play back those files that do work as well, processor is dang near pegged this way too, so the problem is obviously not GBDVR

TornadoTJ · 2006-11-23, 05:56 AM

Should my ATI card be set to "No Deinterlace" or just leave it alone?

FWIW, the ATI Media Center was choppy too.

***sub*** · 2006-11-23, 06:15 AM

Quote:Should my ATI card be set to "No Deinterlace" or just leave it alone?

I dont know what setting specifically you're talking about.

TornadoTJ · 2006-11-23, 08:36 PM

Screenshot

Oh, and by the way, now suddenly the HD programs aren't taking 100% processor, with no change. Strange!

***sub*** · 2006-11-23, 08:41 PM

I'm not familiar with this specific setting, so I'm not really sure whether this setting is used as the default if the video decoder does not request a specific deinterlacing mechanism, or whether it somehow overrides said setting, or whether its used in some entirely different way.

Try 'em all, and use whatever works best.