Hows everyone's Radeon DVD quality.

[Shades]

Hi guys,
I have a ATI Radeon 32MBDDR with the 3056 Drivers.
I watched a few Anime DVDs today and I found the quality of the image is impressive.
However! the movies seems to have a little jump every few seconds and that distorts the image a little.

So, its really annoying.

A few days earlier when I still had my ViperII which I used to watch the same DVDs, there was nothing wrong with it. And the ViperII was a good card to watch DVDs too.

Anyway, anyone else that have any experience with the radeon like this?
Or maybe is there anything I can do to TERMINATE the problem? Thanks in advance!

ATI Radeon 32MBDDR 3056 drivers
10xDVD DMA Enabled
ATI Mutimedia Center DVD player
IT was said that the DVD player takes full advantage of the DVD features the Radeon have.

-S

[GTaudiophile]

I kept my Creative Dxr3 installed, so my DVD video and audio quality is flawless with 5-10% CPU usage. I don't plan on taking it out, so I can't tell you how the Radeon performs on it's own. I would suggest using WinDVD 2.2 as it supports iDCT and 4-channel output. Try the demo first and see if anything improves.

On a side note, I played NFS:HS with FSAA disabled for a while, then played it with FSAA enabled. Wow! What a noticeable difference! Unfortunately, I took a pretty big performance hit. Although the game was still playable, I could tell my FPS dropped quite a bit. I hope ATI offers 2x FSAA as another option at some point.

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[Shades]

Originally posted by GTaudiophile:
I kept my Creative Dxr3 installed, so my DVD video and audio quality is flawless with 5-10% CPU usage. I don't plan on taking it out, so I can't tell you how the Radeon performs on it's own. I would suggest using WinDVD 2.2 as it supports iDCT and 4-channel output. Try the demo first and see if anything improves.

On a side note, I played NFS:HS with FSAA disabled for a while, then played it with FSAA enabled. Wow! What a noticeable difference! Unfortunately, I took a pretty big performance hit. Although the game was still playable, I could tell my FPS dropped quite a bit. I hope ATI offers 2x FSAA as another option at some point.

Hi GTaudiophile,

Thanks for the quick reply.

Looks like I need to try find a new SoftDVD player. Do you know a good FTP site?

I used to play DVDs with powerDVD but after I installed Radeon its refusing to work.

I do find FSAA makes a worlds difference on NFS:HS. It just looks amazing with FSAA but performance does suffer.

I found playing NFS:HS at 800x600 16bit with FSAA on is as far as I want to go, anything above that is pretty slow.

-S
The most amazing crash scene I had was the car went mid air did a 2x sideway flip and landed with the topside down, then the engine compartment exploded with fire.

[GTaudiophile]

Shades,

ICQ me sometime! (Sunday evening as I will be gone until then).

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[bozack]

I use the ati multimedia utility and it seems flawless, much better than with my v3 2000.

I am on a 450 celeron with 128 megs of ram and I have a 10x dvd player.

I have only tried to play the matrix so far but that went well, no skipping or stuttering.

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[cygnus]

My DVD play back skipps as well.

PIII 500
8 X DVD
Radeon 64 VIVO
256 Meg's of RAM

My DVD is the only IDE attached divice. Everything else is SCSI.

I actually thought that either my DVD player was going bad or I had gotten one with not enough cache on it. I noticed that the picture jumped every time the access light on the DVD drive flickered.

Let me know if you figure it out.

[Shades]

Just emailed ATI tech support, maybe they know whats going on.
At the meant time I'm gonna try find a new softDVD player and test it out.

-S

[The Grinch]

I don't have the fastest system in the world right now. Whenever I've experienced choppy video (not DVD) I reboot Windows and then close anything that might be running in the background. ICQ, the RealPlayer icon in my system tray, my firewall, everything. Sometimes those background programs can steal precious system resources. Video then works flawlessly for me.

DVD quality? Can't comment. I don't own a DVD player yet. Oh well.

[G_Glass]

Make sure that you have DNA enabled on the DVD player.

Also, boot into safe mode to see if multiple devices show up where only one device should be.

[bozack]

or you can try and check DMA option under device manager, I am sure putting a dna option in your comuputer won't help your dvd problems that much

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[spanner]

You said you used a viperII before which means you were probably using softDVD like I do with my V770. SoftDVD has conflict with many other DVD decoders and would probably be the problem even if you uninstalled it in advance. If softdvd is still on your system the get rid of it and re-install the ati software otherwise format and install only the Ati software(do not install any other unnecessary software until you try the DVD, at one point some version of ez cd creator messed up softdvd and I had to reformat again)

[Shades]

Originally posted by spanner:
You said you used a viperII before which means you were probably using softDVD like I do with my V770. SoftDVD has conflict with many other DVD decoders and would probably be the problem even if you uninstalled it in advance. If softdvd is still on your system the get rid of it and re-install the ati software otherwise format and install only the Ati software(do not install any other unnecessary software until you try the DVD, at one point some version of ez cd creator messed up softdvd and I had to reformat again)

Hi,
I used to play DVDs with PowerDVD.
Now PowerDVD doesn't work anymore. So, I had it uninstalled.
Now I'm using ATI DVD, it was said that the ATI DVD is the best softdvd player for the radeon.
I'm gonna go check out the registry and see if there is any trace of whatever former DVD player is still left there.

As, for the problem it seems like there is nothing conflicting with it.
It works perfectly fine, it just have this little jump once every few seconds and it distorts the image. Not much just a little distortion but DVDs are suppose to be crytal clear.

Thanks for all the inputs I've tried nearly everything suggested but its still doing it.
Tell me anything new you guys can come up of.

I'll keep you guys posted when ATI emails me back.

Thanks.
-S