Easy Performance Increase for Hauppauge Users

[sudipto]

I just tried to install the ATI decoder, and I DO have a valid ATI MMC CD, still the decoder installation failed claiming that it could not validate the CD.

Anyone else seen this problem ?

[gplasky]

You have to make sure the ATI MMC version of the CD contains version 8.1. Any version older will NOT work.
You can purchase the CD you need from ATI for about $10.00 I believe.


Gerry

[sudipto]

Hmm ... that's probably the problem. The CD that I have came with my All-in-Wonder card purchased quite sometime back ... so the MMC version is probably less than 8.1 (I never used the ATI MMC software, so I am not sure which version is on the CD)

Anyone knows where I can find an older version of the ATI Cyberlink decoder that will work with an older version of the MMC CD ?

[gplasky]

They used another decoder before this. Ravisent. They switched to Cyberlink recently, I believe, with the 8.1 version of the MMC software.

Gerry

[mangriotis]

Yeah, ATI wants $10 for a CD with the old 8.1 version of MMC on it... plus $10 to put it in the mail. I cannot, in good conscience, agree to pay that kind of ridiculous shipping charge for a single CD.

Why can't they just sell the current version and allow you to download it???

[gplasky]

Because of the way they want to prevent this software from being pirated you need to have the physical disk. That way they know you legitimately own the software. I'm pretty sure when they shipped my UPS-ground it was less than $5.00 shipping. $15.00-$20.00 is not a ridiculous price for a DVD decoder. Look at Intervideo or Sonic. Their decoder is $14.99 I believe.

[RAlfieri]

This worked beautifully with my AIW Radeon 8500DV. Thanks for the tip.

[sundansx]

I am using the Elecard decoder because i think it presents the least ghosting during deinterlace when shipped back to my NTSC TV via SVID.
Is there anyway to enable DXVA to be used for this decoder? Is it something that needs to be supported in the codec? I am using a ATI All in Blunder Radeon SDR (the original radeon) on this box.

It looks like the tip that launched this thread is specific for the Hauppuage/Intervideo Non CSS decoder.

thanks.

[mlbdude]

The Elecard decoder currently does not support DXVA. When it does (they are planning on implementing it) I don't think it will work with DScaler. I know it won't work with ffdshow though.

[audiohead]

Given the choice of the following 4 cards, which would you go with on a p4 2Ghz sysem with a 1G ram?

Matrox 450
Matrox 550
ATI (Sapphire) 9600
Gengeric GeForce4 MX 440

I have been using the 550 with the Happauge PCI and 250 and have been plenty happy with that on eith a 26" Mitsub and a 36" Toshiba. I haven't gotten into hacking registers yet as that would probably be determined by which card I decaide to do with and how legable things are. I'm new to Sage but not to PVR's, been at it a couple years but not to the level that you have all stretched things but I am very ready will be enjoying this I can see over the 'other guys' alleged turnkey systems.
-bt

[mlbdude]

The ATI would work well with VMR9. I don't think the Matrox's work with DX9 at all and must use Overlay. Not that that is a bad thing though.

[audiohead]

I'm currently using the ATI on my Editing system, I pull video off my TiVo and burn them to VCD one hour per disc. I go off the VGA to a Misubsibshi E85LCD 18.1" and the composite video goes to an old C=<ommodore stereo color monitor. The commie has seperate Chroma and Luminense(?) rca's on the back... I have been doing non-linear editing (audio and video) for a number of years working primarily with the high-end SCSI disc storage systems for the editing systems and tweaking microcode on hard drives was fun, playing with PC based video is turning out to be interesting indeed...

[mostlyfodder]

Here's how I got VMR9 to work without tearing artifact: (i posted this msg in the vmr thread, too, just b/c it took me so long to sort this out & get it working.)

1- first, i did the two registry tweaks described in the forum link i found in the tips n tricks session. there was an obvious artifact, where i could see the picture being kind of painted on. i *think* that's what people mean by 'tearing'. got this info here:

2- i set the presentation interval (in the registry) to 1, and this solved the tearing artifact.

i'm using a wintv pvr 250 and ati aiw 9600 pro.

-fodder

[mlbdude]

PresentationIntervial is no longer used. The registry key is now UsePresentationInterval and I believe it defaults to 1 now.

[mostlyfodder]

mlbdude-
i recall reading that presentationinterval is no longer used, but i found that in my registry and it was set to something other than one. (it was in hexadecimal, and i don't know what the decimal value was.) i am using beta 2, but i am not sure which version as i upgraded from 1.4 a while ago.

in any case, as follow-up, i'm still happily using vmr9 with no tearing artifact and nice semi-transparent menus.

-fodder

[Scott]

Us non-tecchies would like to get a nice quality picture, too. Could you please explain what a registry is and what to do to change these to the settings you describe

many thanks,

Scott

[kny3twalker]

use these to turn it on and off but you will probably need to reboot for to see the change
and goto run in the start menu and type regedit to see the registry

[Scott]

Thanks for the info.

I double-clicked on the zip files and there was a messasge that my regisitry files had been updated. I noticed no difference in the picture (even after re-booting)

So I went into the regedit (thanks for that info on how to access this). I noticed the following entries were still set to "0", so I manually changed them to "1" per the original post (while STV in sleep mode)

HKLM\Software\IviSDK4Hauppauge\Common\VideoDec\Dxv
a
HKLM\Software\IviSDK4Hauppauge\Common\VideoDec\Hwm
c


After re-entering STV I rec'd the following error(see attached jpeg fille)


any thoughts would be really appreciated - I have the Happauge 250 card.

thanks,

Scott

[Scott]

Well, I think I have a 250, it's a relatively new card (less than 6 months old)

My PC info says the following about the Hauppauge card = "Win Tv PVR PCI II"

[stanger89]

Originally posted by Scott
After re-entering STV I rec'd the following error(see attached jpeg fille)

Scott,

Go into Detailed Setup->Video and make sure DXVA MPEG Mode, and DXVA Deinterlace Mode are set to default.