Video distortion while playing DVD's

moahdeeb777 · Post by **moahdeeb777** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 4:48 am

I have Major Video Distortion while trying to play a DVD. Ok my OS is WIN98SE I have Ulead DVD Movie Factory 3 Suite and I have the lastest updates for this software. I also have the latest DirectX and latest NVIDIA drvs., for my card. I have all the latest updates for windows too, but when I play a DVD I have Major Video Distortion but good Audio. I have Hardware Video Accerleration checked on the video tab in preferences of the Ulead DVD player, also I have the DMA checked for both DVD-ROM and DVDBurner but I get distortion on both drives when I play a DVD. I know its a software issue but I don't know what to change or what eles to update or what eles to download to make this work. The strange thing is it use to work great before I reinstalled Windows. Signed PLEASE HELP

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 1:45 pm

What kind of distortion? Is it only on your own home made DVD's? Or is it with a Retail DVD as well?

What are the project properties you are using for your DVD (mpeg-1 or mpeg-2, resolution, bitrate, etc...)?

What is your video source type, and how was it captured to your computer?

moahdeeb777 · Post by **moahdeeb777** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 10:30 pm

George it is on Pre-recorded DVD's, I haven't tried to make any burns on DVD's as of yet I just wanted to play some DVD's to see them work as they did before I re-installed Windows 98SE. I just put the DVD in and I cannot see the picture because of the distrotion, but the audio is good.

jcc · Post by **jcc** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 4:02 am

One possibility is that you are playing an NTSC or PAL DVD without the player/display being set to handle the appropriate system.

moahdeeb777 · Post by **moahdeeb777** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 4:48 pm

John I want to make sure what you are talking about. When you first install the program it ask what reigon you are in I checked NTSC which is for United States and Canada. Can you switch that setting to see if it will play? I haven't seen any setting change for that specific change NTSC or PAL within the prefference control panel of Ulead DVD player. Thanks for the reply I had thought about that before but was unsure as to how to change it. Again that choice is I think only available during install.

jcc · Post by **jcc** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 1:11 am

If it is distortion when playing on the Ulead Player, I would not expect that it is the answer. I could not find the facility to change the TV system either. Under TV system in the Help, an obsolete prefererences window does show an ability to change the TV system. And the mpeg preferences window shows the system being used. Sorry that I cannot be more help.

moahdeeb777 · Post by **moahdeeb777** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 2:11 am

Hey, thanks for the replies and trying to help, I'll just keep sluggin away at this or in hopes someone will see this an have an apophenia and clue me in. The really weird thing is it worked great before I had to reinstall windows 98 SE, I have updated any and everything pertaining to Win98SE and I'm back to where I was before the reinstall of windows so I at a lost as to wehat the problem could be. Thanks again EWC

htchien · Post by **htchien** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 3:06 am

If you uncheck the Hardware Video Acceleration option, will it fix the problem?

The option can speed up the playing performance, but might get distortion on some display cards.

Hope this helps.

H.T.

plasma_video · Post by **plasma_video** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 3:07 pm

One other possibility might be an IRQ conflict in the computer. Did you by chance rearrange any boards in the computer or change anything in BIOS before the Windows reinstall? 98se sometimes had real problems with IRQ issues. I used to have to constantly tweak the card arrangement and BIOS settings to get rid of conflicts after changing hardware. You can look for conflicts in Windows hardware Device Manager. This might be an issue, especially if your video card has an assigned IRQ and also especially if it is a PCI card instead of AGP.

I should also mention that you might try going back a few versions in your NVidia drivers to see if that would help. My experience has been that sometimes their driver updates break some things while fixing others.

Good luck! Sometimes these things will drive you nuts trying to solve.

Tom

moahdeeb777 · Post by **moahdeeb777** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 1:22 am

To: plasma_video
Ok I did try an older version of diplay drivers for my video card that didn't work. Explain how I can check on "IRQ conflict in the computer", when I open my device manager I have no conflicts, no yellow ?marks by any of the devices listed. As for as rearranging any thing I moved on the IDE cables so my 20GB and 160GB would be on the same IDE cable in slot 2 and my two optical drives would be on the same IDE cable in slot one, and the player did not work, so I put back the 20GB with the DVD burner and the 160GB with the DVD-ROM, I added some more RAM 256 the be exact. I updated my BIOS, but I am almost 100% sure the player was still working even after that. Can you walk me through the IRQ issues and how I can determine if my video card has an assigned IRQ, my video card is a NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 and I think it is PCI card, it fits into a PCI slot. Email me and lets discuss this and then we can post the results back in this forum.

plasma_video · Post by **plasma_video** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 3:43 am

Sure, I'll do that. My wife just got home, so it will be a bit later for the PM, but if you go to Device Manager, right click on Computer and select Properties, you can select View Resources and look at IRQ and DMA assignments. You can also look at the properties of individual devices and look at System Resources. Generally if there is a conflict, Windows will report it. You can look for your video card IRQ in one of those 2 places. On some motherboards, there is a setting in BIOS to allow the asigning of an IRQ to a video card. You might try turning it on or off if it's there. Also, when the computer boots, the POST message will list devices and report IRQs.

Several other things come to mind. I've had problems using Cable Select mode on older IDE devices, and cleared some problems with manually putting the jumpers on the drives to assign Master/Slave. As you said you rearranged IDE cables, so that might be a possibility. I also have found that some Sound Blaster cards are PCI bus hogs and will interfere with some video capture card operations. Might be the same thing here with the video card. Try moving the sound card to a different PCI slot, if you are using a card rather than the onboard motherboard sound chipset.

Check these out and repost. I'll try to PM you shortly, but that's probably the best ideas I can come up with at the moment.

Oh - I'm getting a bit suspicious of the IDE cable thing, now that I've reviewed your post and the rearranging of things. Logically, the HDs and the DVD devices should be hooked up as you have them. You might try, though, removing one of the DVD devices, make sure he one left is set to Master, and see if that works.

It might be tomorrow morning before I PM you - I'm getting the evil eye from the wife to get off the computer, as we haven't seen each other all day.

Good Luck!

Tom

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