SageTV 6.3 with PowerDVD 7 Codec, incomplete picture.

[tcsubwoofer]

I downloaded the PowerDVD 7 software last night to use with Sage TV 6.3 because apparently Sage TV needs an external codec to play copy protected DVDs in the drive.

While this allowed the movies to play, the movies are shifted to the right on my screen and not shown in full 16x9. If fact, it looks like 2/3 of the picture is shown in 16/9 and the right 1/3 is truncated on the right side of the screen. Also, the move doesn't doe a real full-screen mode. What do I do now? Just curious, would I have this problem if I just copied the DVDs to my hard drive?

I'll vent - I've heard so many good things about SageTV software that I never assumed it would be so hard to setup. I really want to use two media extenders with it, but unless I can get it working its a no go. I have found Windows MC and WinTV to be much easier to watch TV in terms of setup and graphical user interface. But I understand that SageTV is better all around for use over a network, etc...

Here are my computer specs:

Windows Vista Home Premium 32 Bit
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+ 2.1 GHz
2 GB Ram Gskill DDR2800
Gigabyte Motherboard GA-MA69G-S3H With ATI Radeon x1200 Series Integrated Graphics

Well, please help me if you can. Thanks!

[tcsubwoofer]

Originally Posted by tcsubwoofer

I downloaded the PowerDVD 7 software last night to use with Sage TV 6.3 because apparently Sage TV needs an external codec to play copy protected DVDs in the drive.

While this allowed the movies to play, the movies are shifted to the right on my screen and not shown in full 16x9. If fact, it looks like 2/3 of the picture is shown in 16/9 and the right 1/3 is truncated on the right side of the screen. Also, the move doesn't doe a real full-screen mode. What do I do now? Just curious, would I have this problem if I just copied the DVDs to my hard drive?

I'll vent - I've heard so many good things about SageTV software that I never assumed it would be so hard to setup. I really want to use two media extenders with it, but unless I can get it working its a no go. I have found Windows MC and WinTV to be much easier to watch TV in terms of setup and graphical user interface. But I understand that SageTV is better all around for use over a network, etc...

Here are my computer specs:

Windows Vista Home Premium 32 Bit
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+ 2.1 GHz
2 GB Ram Gskill DDR2800
Gigabyte Motherboard GA-MA69G-S3H With ATI Radeon x1200 Series Integrated Graphics

Well, please help me if you can. Thanks!

Found Problem - When I changed my Video Renderer options to VMR9 and kept my Video Decoder options set to the Cyberlink Video/SP Decoder (PDVD7) the picture started to play properly. Yippee!