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08-10-2005, 12:47 AM
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Crappy DVD playing
ok, i downloaded four media programs....i have winmedia which of courrse will not play my DVD's because of the decoding necessary. I have Nero, DVD direct, VLC, PCI Friendly (but that freezes up everytime so i dont use it). I get terrible blurry picture on each program...any fixess?
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08-10-2005, 01:15 AM
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have you tried a different dvd drive?
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08-10-2005, 10:11 AM
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i was thinkin of that, but that requires work and i will only do that if completely necessary....i will try the dvd's on my other computers.
EDIT: it played fine on the other computers, on mine its pretty grainy and the colors are distorted. Last edited by Amazin Caucasian; 08-10-2005 at 10:36 AM. |
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08-10-2005, 11:11 AM
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try cyberlink
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08-10-2005, 11:15 AM
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The DVD drive itself is not the problem. It's only the decoding. Have you tried PowerDVD or WinDVD ? They are two of the best DVD playback softwares.
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08-10-2005, 11:37 AM
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freeware?? i didn't think it was the drive, otherwise i would have posted it in hardware.
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08-10-2005, 11:46 AM
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cyberlink cums wif most dvd roms so i think its freeware
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08-10-2005, 12:01 PM
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i downloaded a trial version of PowerDVD 6 and that blows also....
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08-10-2005, 12:05 PM
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Can you maybe make a screenshot with PowerDVD, so that we can see what it looks like ? Also, the blurriness. . does it appear in both fullscreen and window mode ? RJ |
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08-10-2005, 12:05 PM
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Have you checked for a firmware update for the drive?
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08-10-2005, 12:15 PM
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no i have not done a firmware update......woops. that would be throug NEC right?? What is the button for screenshot of just the screen, i only know it for different games.
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08-10-2005, 12:18 PM
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If you mean Windows, it's PrtScr. It doesn't capture the hardware overlay, though. RJ |
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08-10-2005, 12:36 PM
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08-10-2005, 12:53 PM
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where can i acess the screen shot?
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08-11-2005, 02:44 AM
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can't edit sry...how do i access the screenshots i am taking on PowerDVD and I updated the firmware and still no luck.
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08-11-2005, 01:39 PM
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thats lame, when i pate it onto Paint....it looks fine. no distortion or anything.
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08-11-2005, 01:53 PM
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Then I'd say it's the graphic drivers. Have you installed the newest ones ?
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08-11-2005, 02:20 PM
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i just installed the newest driver for my video card....still crappy picture.
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08-11-2005, 02:27 PM
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Do you have the crappy picture only in fullscreen, or also in windowed mode ?
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08-11-2005, 02:28 PM
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both...its all dvd;s not just the current one.
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08-11-2005, 03:57 PM
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turns out, its not just DVD's its also streaming media.
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08-11-2005, 04:43 PM
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Have you installed any codec packs on the problematic PC ? If so, get rid of them, they can mess up these things.
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08-11-2005, 04:51 PM
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i'm pretty sure not...should I unistall all of the media players jsut in case a codec came with them?? I installed a Windows Media Decoder Chekup utility...i think i installed that, if not it came like that.
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08-11-2005, 05:12 PM
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No, I don't think so. As long as you didn't install a codec pack yourself, it should be fine.
Anyway, now that you installed PowerDVD, Windows Media Player can playback DVDs as well. Enter the options of WMP, go to the Performance tab, and move the video acceleration slider all the way to the left and click ok. That will disable the hardware overlay for WMP. Try to play a DVD with WMP, then, and see if you still get the problems. RJ |
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08-11-2005, 05:14 PM
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Dscaler is very popular at the AVS Forums. It is free and many say it produces a better picture than any other DVD software. It's really more like a codec pack. Once installed Windows Media Player will play DVD's. Most people choose to use BSplayer but I think WMP works fine.
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08-11-2005, 05:41 PM
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what the flip....well the pictures still sucks on PowerDVD, and i tried to play it on WMP but i got a different error (which is progress) that it couldn't play it because of the digital copyright.
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08-12-2005, 12:19 PM
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If you have an Nvidia video card, go back to the 71.89 drivers. The 77.72's have issues like this.
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08-14-2005, 05:37 PM
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ok, how do I go back?? just install it?? i was having these problems before the 77.72's...do you ya think that i started out with 77.72 with the driver cd that was given to me??
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08-14-2005, 07:58 PM
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Download the 71.89's from Nvidia's driver archive, uninstall the current drivers and install the new (old) ones.
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