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Misery comes in little coloured blocks (a DVD story)
Like many who post in this forum, I use the Matrox G400 DVD Player to watch movies in super-whizzo-vision. Being a brave soul, I also upgrade the Cinemaster engine on which the Matrox Player is based, and use the excellent DVD Region Selector to play both Region 1 & 2 DVD movies.
That is, until about two weeks ago.
Having performed a Cinemaster & Region Selector upgrade, my DVD movie playback became corrupted by little coloured blocks all over the window (also in full-screen mode). The audio playback would stutter too and the whole player would lock up after a few seconds. Boo hoo.
After much fiddling I've found that if I uncheck the "Hardware Acceleration" box in the DVD Region Selector, that DVD movie playback returns to normal. This isn't such a hardship, as the G400 doesn't accelerate MPEG-2 decoding in hardware anyway.
I hope this information helps anyone else afflicted with little coloured blocks.
That is, until about two weeks ago.
Having performed a Cinemaster & Region Selector upgrade, my DVD movie playback became corrupted by little coloured blocks all over the window (also in full-screen mode). The audio playback would stutter too and the whole player would lock up after a few seconds. Boo hoo.
After much fiddling I've found that if I uncheck the "Hardware Acceleration" box in the DVD Region Selector, that DVD movie playback returns to normal. This isn't such a hardship, as the G400 doesn't accelerate MPEG-2 decoding in hardware anyway.
I hope this information helps anyone else afflicted with little coloured blocks.
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