MPCHC w/ Cyberlink Codec: Playback issues
Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 6:42 pm
Hello!
I received my fit-pc2 ( Intel Atom Z530 1.6GHz) w/ Ubuntu just yesterday. So far everything seemed fine but video playback in Ubuntu had quite some problems, starting from display errors in fullscreen mode (mplayer) to various strange (flickering..) output.
After I'm not exactly THAT much into Linux I've decided to install WinXP SP3 and go on testing. Installed it from a USB stick, downloaded and installed all drivers plus PowerDVD 9 and the latest Media Player Classic Home Cinema.
MPCHC Settings:
Output: Overlay Mixer
Internal filters for h264 etc disabled
External filters: Cyberlink h264 w/ DXVA turned on
The device is attached to a Samsung 46" LED TV through HDMI running 1920x1080.
Ok, so far everything was going well and it seemed a lot more stable. I've tried playing the same video files and it worked out in almost no case really. As soon as I enter fullscreen mode I have some trouble in both picture quality and playback speed. This happens to 1080p h264 mkv files mainly but also 720p. The most annoying is I can see some horizontal lines in fast(er) scenes in the upper half of the screen, pressing pause they disappear though. I've tried some xvid avis at lower resoltuions and still had (far less but still) some horizontal lines in fullscreen mode. If the player window is fit to the size of the screen, yet not in fullscreen mode, the videos play fine. Basically DXVA seems to be working since CPU load during playback is low as 20%.
I found out if I lower the resolution to any other than 1920x1080 I do not have these errors, not even in fullscreen mode.
After I could not really find much help in the posts in this forum I decided to test using Windows 7 Pro because it's supposed to have better DXVA(2) support. Now after installing OS and drivers I can only switch between 800x600 and 1024x768 and the OS tells about 1|2 screens attached. Drivers are properly installed, I've checked that already.
So would there happen to be anyone who's solved that kind of problems before? I can not test those things on a TFT monitor or something because besides the TV I only own an old CRT.
The same files play fine on my laptop using ffdshow with libavcodec btw.
Any help is appreciated!!
I received my fit-pc2 ( Intel Atom Z530 1.6GHz) w/ Ubuntu just yesterday. So far everything seemed fine but video playback in Ubuntu had quite some problems, starting from display errors in fullscreen mode (mplayer) to various strange (flickering..) output.
After I'm not exactly THAT much into Linux I've decided to install WinXP SP3 and go on testing. Installed it from a USB stick, downloaded and installed all drivers plus PowerDVD 9 and the latest Media Player Classic Home Cinema.
MPCHC Settings:
Output: Overlay Mixer
Internal filters for h264 etc disabled
External filters: Cyberlink h264 w/ DXVA turned on
The device is attached to a Samsung 46" LED TV through HDMI running 1920x1080.
Ok, so far everything was going well and it seemed a lot more stable. I've tried playing the same video files and it worked out in almost no case really. As soon as I enter fullscreen mode I have some trouble in both picture quality and playback speed. This happens to 1080p h264 mkv files mainly but also 720p. The most annoying is I can see some horizontal lines in fast(er) scenes in the upper half of the screen, pressing pause they disappear though. I've tried some xvid avis at lower resoltuions and still had (far less but still) some horizontal lines in fullscreen mode. If the player window is fit to the size of the screen, yet not in fullscreen mode, the videos play fine. Basically DXVA seems to be working since CPU load during playback is low as 20%.
I found out if I lower the resolution to any other than 1920x1080 I do not have these errors, not even in fullscreen mode.
After I could not really find much help in the posts in this forum I decided to test using Windows 7 Pro because it's supposed to have better DXVA(2) support. Now after installing OS and drivers I can only switch between 800x600 and 1024x768 and the OS tells about 1|2 screens attached. Drivers are properly installed, I've checked that already.
So would there happen to be anyone who's solved that kind of problems before? I can not test those things on a TFT monitor or something because besides the TV I only own an old CRT.
The same files play fine on my laptop using ffdshow with libavcodec btw.
Any help is appreciated!!