ATI video playback defective--Suggestions??

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Jack

Have finally isolated my problem to the ATI video playback. Symptoms
are image pixelating and then freezing. Occurs at any point from a few
minutes to two hours or more. The .vcr files play perfectly in Windows
Media Player from beginning to end, hence my conclusion that problem
is ATI playback software and not the .vcr file itself. Unfortunately Media
Player is not controllable by Remote Wonder II.

Does anyone have any suggestions how to fix this problem. Any help
appreciated.
Jack.
 
Jack said:
Have finally isolated my problem to the ATI video playback. Symptoms
are image pixelating and then freezing. Occurs at any point from a few
minutes to two hours or more. The .vcr files play perfectly in Windows
Media Player from beginning to end, hence my conclusion that problem
is ATI playback software and not the .vcr file itself. Unfortunately Media
Player is not controllable by Remote Wonder II.

Does anyone have any suggestions how to fix this problem. Any help
appreciated.
Jack.
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What version of the display drivers and MMC are you using? Do you have DX9,
Windows Media Encoder 9 and ATI Decoder installed? If these are installed
try doing a Repair on MMC.
HTH
 
T said:
What version of the display drivers and MMC are you using? Do you have DX9,
Windows Media Encoder 9 and ATI Decoder installed? If these are installed
try doing a Repair on MMC.
HTH
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The following have been installed, not necessarily in order of appearance:
w2k-ccc-8-082-041130a-etc...
mmc-9-03-0-0
mmc-9-1-0-0-dao-mdac
WME 9
ATI decoder (latest)
Directx 9c
Remote Wonder 2-5-0-0
TV capture-wdm-6-14-10-6246

All have been reinstalled several times. Have even done clean install of
W2k and installed only basic apps plus ATI CD drivers only; results same.
Added each update, one at a time; same results. Windows Media Player
shows the same breaking up and freezing so now I'm not sure if it is the
..vcr file which is defective or the playback. Sometimes the breakup
starts after a few minutes and sometimes after two to three hours but
appears to be somewhat consistent for each vcr file.

Thanks for coming back with some ideas. ATI tech has been useless.
Guess I'll just have to keep experimenting.
Jack.
 
Jack said:
The following have been installed, not necessarily in order of appearance:
w2k-ccc-8-082-041130a-etc...
mmc-9-03-0-0
mmc-9-1-0-0-dao-mdac
WME 9
ATI decoder (latest)
Directx 9c
Remote Wonder 2-5-0-0
TV capture-wdm-6-14-10-6246

All have been reinstalled several times. Have even done clean install of
W2k and installed only basic apps plus ATI CD drivers only; results same.
Added each update, one at a time; same results. Windows Media Player
shows the same breaking up and freezing so now I'm not sure if it is the
.vcr file which is defective or the playback. Sometimes the breakup
starts after a few minutes and sometimes after two to three hours but
appears to be somewhat consistent for each vcr file.

Thanks for coming back with some ideas. ATI tech has been useless.
Guess I'll just have to keep experimenting.
Jack.
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Make sure you have the latest M/B chipset drivers and DMA turned on.

Try using the Cat uninstaller. Then install the individual drivers(in low
speed d/l section) starting with the WDM capture drivers(per release notes),
display drivers and control panel. Don't install CCC. Then dao-mdac, decoder
and MMC. Order of installation is important.
HTH
 
Try using the Cat uninstaller. Then install the individual drivers(in low
speed d/l section) starting with the WDM capture drivers(per release notes),
display drivers and control panel. Don't install CCC. Then dao-mdac, decoder
and MMC. Order of installation is important.
HTH
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Thanks, I have done a complete ATI uninstall and will try the order
of installation you suggest and w/o CCC.
Jack.
 
Try using the Cat uninstaller. Then install the individual drivers(in low
speed d/l section) starting with the WDM capture drivers(per release notes),
display drivers and control panel. Don't install CCC. Then dao-mdac, decoder
and MMC. Order of installation is important.
HTH
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Following your install suggestions appears to have corrected the problems.
Thanks for your patience and help.
Jack.
 
What file are you playing when you see the break up then freezing of
the picture?

If you change the capture save features to avi what happens when you
play back the entire file of if you change the setting to MPEG 1 or 2?

If you are playing back a DVD or VCD that you burned from the original
capture file, which you say is OK, the problem is in burning and
rendering process NOT the player or the card. Define what file you
are playing back and on what medium then reask the question.
 
Jack,

If you are now saying the vcr file (captured file) is breaking up you
have a capture problem simply. You need to reduce the capture file
setting to lower resoulution (this is not necessarily lower quality,
expecially if your end result is a DVD) Caution, when you start
re-installing drivers you really need to be very careful as ATI
installs do not necessairly overwirte previous installations as if
they were never there. You may end up re-installing every ATI
component just to get things back to normal, if certain other parts of
the ATI or MMC get broken. I suggest that you lower the resolution
settings, capture again, then watch the playback using other programs
to play back the capture video to determine if you indeed have a
capture problem as I suspect.
 
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