Hi
This weekend I've been trying to get the DVD player to work (G400 Marvel). The stills screens on the DVDs show perfectly.
But when I try to play the actual film it suffers from a flickering greeny ghosting effect on the TV and in the window on the monitor it shows fine if the window is made very small, goes green/black at a medium window size and and the same greeny ghosting flicker at full screen as appears on the TV.
I've downloaded the latest drivers from the site and installed them, I tried deselecting the dual head but the image on the monitor does not improve. I prefer 1280x1078 but I've tried the recommended 16 bit 1076x768 resolution and also tried 800x600 in case it was the hardware being slow.
I've only got 3 DVDs as yet and it happens on all of them.
My PC is a NEC Athlon 1.3 gig with AMD 760 chipset, 256MB DDram, 60Gb hard disk, Pioneer 115 DVD drive, Windows ME. 4 months old.
It came with an Nvidia Geforce GT graphics card and MGI SoftDVD pre-installed. The DVDs played OK both on the monitor window and the TV (but not dual head so couldn't do both at the same time!).
So I have replaced that with the Matrox card which I'd bought for my previous Dell system - this didn't have a DVD player so I never tried on that machine.
When I run SoftDVD with the Matrox card, I get one of two error messages on loading the DVD, either "Video Renderer error" or "error in ZDVD.DLL".
So it's not the program or the TV connections but the drivers I think. But I have installed the latest VT 1.55 and 6.28 and games etc work OK on it...
Anyone had this? And know what the answer is?
Thanks
VTS
BTW I would post on the Matrox tech support forum but you can't at the weekend - grrr just the time when you're trying to do stuff
This weekend I've been trying to get the DVD player to work (G400 Marvel). The stills screens on the DVDs show perfectly.
But when I try to play the actual film it suffers from a flickering greeny ghosting effect on the TV and in the window on the monitor it shows fine if the window is made very small, goes green/black at a medium window size and and the same greeny ghosting flicker at full screen as appears on the TV.
I've downloaded the latest drivers from the site and installed them, I tried deselecting the dual head but the image on the monitor does not improve. I prefer 1280x1078 but I've tried the recommended 16 bit 1076x768 resolution and also tried 800x600 in case it was the hardware being slow.
I've only got 3 DVDs as yet and it happens on all of them.
My PC is a NEC Athlon 1.3 gig with AMD 760 chipset, 256MB DDram, 60Gb hard disk, Pioneer 115 DVD drive, Windows ME. 4 months old.
It came with an Nvidia Geforce GT graphics card and MGI SoftDVD pre-installed. The DVDs played OK both on the monitor window and the TV (but not dual head so couldn't do both at the same time!).
So I have replaced that with the Matrox card which I'd bought for my previous Dell system - this didn't have a DVD player so I never tried on that machine.
When I run SoftDVD with the Matrox card, I get one of two error messages on loading the DVD, either "Video Renderer error" or "error in ZDVD.DLL".
So it's not the program or the TV connections but the drivers I think. But I have installed the latest VT 1.55 and 6.28 and games etc work OK on it...
Anyone had this? And know what the answer is?
Thanks
VTS
BTW I would post on the Matrox tech support forum but you can't at the weekend - grrr just the time when you're trying to do stuff
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