VMR9 with 3D Acceleration

[Scott]

I am using the VMR9 renderer with the 3D Acceleration enabled (Nvidia decoder - for NVDVD 2.50).

The picture quality is the best I've ever had (especially since switchig to the Nvidia decoder), however when I activate any of the cool looking translucent menus while the video is playing, my screen begins flickering. The flickering gets worse the longer I leave the menu on the screen.

I have a Radeon 9600 video card (latest drivers are installed). If I play around with the Direct3D settings in the "Advanced" tab of the display properties, I can make the flickering less noticeable (and much worse), but can not get it to go away.

I'd really like to keep both the VMR9 / 3D Acceleration settings, becuase the picture quality is great. If I disable 3D the frame transitioning is not as smooth and if I turn off VMR9 the picture clarity decreases noticably (and, of course, I lose the cool translucent menus).

I guess I could learn to live with the flickering menu screens, but shouldn't there be some way to fix this? I've tried for hours to play around with the Direct3d settings for my videocard and I don't see any other settings that could help cure this. I was thinking it could have something to do with my Happaugue (sp?) pvr-250 card - since the problem only occurs while video is on the screen. I downloaded the latest pvr software available for that, too (but I do't see where I can play with the pvr settings).

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

[kny3twalker]

well if you disable 3d acceleration in SageTV

you are not using VMR9
you are using overlay

3d acceleration must be enabled to use VMR9

I am guessing you are connecting your video card to a TV via svideo, right?

in the ATI driver setup for TV out
you can reduce the flickering

[Scott]

thanks for your reply. l have s video going into my pvr card, but have DVI coming out of my video card to an HDTV(toshiba). Does this help identify any potential problems?

[kny3twalker]

sorry that reduce flickering feature is for TV out only
not DVI

[Scott]

kny3twalker , thanks anyway for your response.

I'm going to play around with the video card direct3d settings, since adjusting those settings seems to have the biggest affect (although, of course, I have still not found the settings to eliminate the problem).

I've found pretty cool tool called Rage3D Tweak 3.9. I'm not sure but I think it only works with ATI cards. It's for the 3d settings, but there are a lot more controls compared to what comes with the ATI drivers. Here is the link to download it:

http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=391