Go cyberlink, you're yanking my chain, right?

[dave m]

This just gets better...

david m Asked 2003/8/2 10:14
Re: Response CS000136720 As per your suggested fix to use a faster processor, I have just spent £250 upgrading my machine to an Athlon XP2400+ with 256 Mb DDR memory and a radeon 9000 pro video card. This has made no difference to the speed powerdvd 5.0 runs at, it still jerks along with 5 second pauses between frames, just as before. I append the diagnostic file and hope you can work out what the problem is.

Attach File : Cldma.log
jason_c Reply 2003/8/6 23:15
Please try to update your VGA card driver and you can try to update your Motherboard chipset driver from your motherboard company web site, after rebooting, you can update your VGA card driver for your OS (Win98SE) and tehn you can reinstall PowerDVD and start up PowerDVD 5 to play DVD to try (set your desktop resolution at 1024*768 16bit).



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david m Asked 2003/7/18 12:46
Cry for help, not a complaint XP 4.0 ran like a dream, 5.0 plays half second clips with a 5 second delay... I bought the upgrade and installed it, I didn't uninstall 4.0 so presumably it went in over the top of 4?. Have I done something wrong? It's a 700 AMD chip running a Videlogic Kyro 2 Vivid! Xs graphics card that was perfectly happy running 4.0 XP in multi speaker mode. Dave

jason_c Reply 2003/7/22 20:40
Sorry, this is a performace issue, we suggest you to use more fast CPU to play PoweRDVD 5.0. Since we alrady enhance our video and audio enghine in PowerDVD 5.


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Reading between the lines, I've been trying to use it on a Princeton presentation monitor which has a max res of 800x600, The study computer runs at 1024x768 which would play it. Any bets as to whether it would work if I set the display to 1024x768 and sent it to the XGA projector (never got as far as turning the projector on before as it wouldn't play on the monitor)

So PowerDVD 5.0 may only be XGA and up, interesting...

Dave

[Byock]

Wow, sure sounds like they are a great help.

[Wombat]

256MB isn't a lot, even for W98. Though you should be able to run DVDs just fine. Have you tried other apps, especially older ones?

[dave m]

They are seriously yanking my chain...
Change of resolution made no difference.

The office machine runs it and is 2 years old, with a 1 gig chip, no VGA or chipset upgrades.

The old HTPC machine and the rebuild only have issues with version 5.0 of powerdvd, everything else works as well as before.

I need to stay calm and accept that powerdvd 5.0 is a complete pile of steaming donkey poo.

I shouldn't feel so upset that an upgrade I paid for doesn't actually work on the machine it's predecessor was fine with, and even though I upgraded the machine to greater than 5x minimum spec nothing has changed.

(Not a rant at you Wombat, I'll look into memory, but they quote 64 meg as min... this machine now has 256Meg DDR at 266Mhz.)

[a_h]

Just wanted to mention that 256 MB are really much memory for win9x. Hey wombat, did you forget that win9x won't even boot everytime with more than 512 MB Ram? And that performance degrades with the memory amount? Hey that's good old Win98 with the crappy memory managment!

Sorry, I've heared of much troubles with the new version, so you can just wait for a new build...

[The PIT]

I've had jerky DVD before and that was becuase my Radeon didn't like 256mb of agp set in the bios. 64mb seemed to fix it.

[Wombat]

Originally posted by a_h
Just wanted to mention that 256 MB are really much memory for win9x. Hey wombat, did you forget that win9x won't even boot everytime with more than 512 MB Ram?

No, I didn't forget. But a poor DVD decoding algorithm could eat memory like crazy.

[dave m]

That's a thought PIT, I'll check the AGP memory in the bios before I uninstall it for the third time

Dave

[a_h]

Sure. So you can choose between crappy Win-Speed/decent PowerDVD5-performance and normal Win9x-slowness/crappy PowerDVD5-performance....

PowerDVD4 seems still to be the better choice since I cannot even choose between different language tracks (SVCD)...apart from the artifacts it produces...

[Marshmallowman]

Are you sure your dvd drive is not the culprit...

Is it in DMA mode, or on a shared channel?

[Gurm]

ARGH I HATE POWERDVD 5!

Just thought I'd share.

Gpar_

[dave m]

We know Gurm You have a few converts too, now.

Marshmallowman, it's in DMA mode and is the secondary master, and it works OK with XP 4.0.

Dave

Edit: corrected a rather important typo

[Gurm]

*sigh*

So now I'm trying to decide - drop back to PowerDVD XP 4.0, or switch over to WinDVD or Cineplayer?

Gpar_

[dave m]

Oops, it's amazing what difference a typo can make to the meaning of something.
That was supposed to read:

"We know Gurm You have a few converts too, now."

not, "you have few converts"

I've gone back and edited it, Sorry Gurm

Dave

I can't get WinDVD to do SPDIF out to my amp so I'll stick with PowerDVD 4.0 XP until they fix 5.0

[Gurm]

Hmm... I don't need... well I might. Heh. Been meaning to run the SPDIF to my ADA-880's one of these days.

Gpar_