decoder choice

[ktwebb]

Trying to capture from Camcorder stuff and getting the jittery screen when quick motion takes place. Upgraded my ATI driver to the newest catalyst driver, 4.4 I believe. Now I get horrible, unwatchable tearing at even the slightest movement. What I don't quite understand is how to change the decoder. I googled some things and see suggestions to change ffshow or whatever it is, this or that and frankly it doesn't make any sense. Does installing DVD decoder software change the codec? Is there a utility to change it? I downloaded Cineplay, a software package that helped some, basically taking me back to where I was, at least using that player. WMP9 gives me the same jittery output. Media Player tries to download a codec, fails, then goes on and plays the mpeg. At this point I'd be happy with what I had and perhaps just rolling back the driver on the ATI Radeon 9500 is the answer here but I'd like to undersand more about the decoder itself. Suggestions like "Just change the ffshow" is useless to me. I need to know HOW to change these things. Links to a good software download and so forth. I'm sure this sounds ignorant to many reading it but I have just begun messing around with all this stuff. Took me a month to get Sage TV and recoder how I like it and I am relatively happy though there is tearing there as well with things like B-Ball games. This is getting long so I'll bail. I'll be happy to answer any questions and help is much appreciated.

Update: Installing WinDVD player got me back to where I was, perhaps even a bit better off. Hard to tell. I still wouldn't mind a decent tutorial, in english, about how to configure these things. I've seen other posts where people mention using decoders I've never heard of. Is there a sweet spot with what software to use to get rid of as much of the jitters/tearing as possible on mpeg playback?

[mrr19121970]

Try getting hold of gspot 2. This fancy piece of software will list all the available codecs on your installation that are capable of rendering your movies. It also says the priority of the codecs, I'm not sure but possibly you can try out different ones than the default and perhaps set the priority too.

I reccomend trying and buying the MPEG2 video decoder from Elecard. See my previous post for the link.

Zoomplayer is good for the advanced user. Here you can say which codecs a movie is to use irrespective of the priority. There's also a tool to set the priorities too.

Hope this helps.

Mike.

[ktwebb]

Elecard version 2.0 completely got my audio and video out of sync plus the picture quality was no better. I edited my audio latency which fixed it temporarily but when I would drag the sage window the audio would get out of sync by as much as a full second. No thanks to that one but I appreciate the suggestion anyway.

[mlbdude]

Elecard will only go out of sync if you have a slow PC and use Double Refresh. Disable that and it will go away.

[ktwebb]

Pc is plenty fast for this. Never has a problem with any of the other decoder's i've tried. Don't know what double refresh is but it's hard to imagine it would be on by default if there are issues with syncing. I certainly have not turned anything on called double refresh. I'll keep trying other things, elecard decoder just won't be one of em.