Nvidia DVD Decoder - Lots of problems...

[goseecal]

Thank you for reading! (santa2)

I downloaded the new beta drivers from NVIDIA's website, then uninstalled my previous NVIDIA drivers, restarted windows, used driver cleaner, then installed the new NVIDIA drivers and restarted. then i installed windows media player 10 and restarted. then i installed Nvidia DVD decoder and restarted. i am using the trial version for now.

when i try to watch a dvd from within the nvidia DVD decoder program (located in the file created by installing it) i get a "DVD ERROR". when I try to watch through Windows MEdia Player 10, the little Nvidia DVD decoder program comes up and i can alter my preferences, but in WMP10 no picture is there - the screen is blank in fullscreen and windowed, while sound plays.

I can still play dvds in powerdvd, but the NVIDIA DVD DECODER program does not come up and so virtually all of the features are not being used.

due to these problems i cannot use NVIDIA DVD encoder to watch my DVDs the way that the program is supposed to allow me to. my card is a 6600 GT, and I use XP SP2.

p.s. no bs answers like "format c and reinstall windows", thanks (xmassign2

[Elderblaze]

This might be a bs answer, but to be honest your really not missing much dude. The quality differnce is minimal between software mode on PowerDVD and hardware, also you only get downmixed 2.0 sound, not dts, or dd if you have a 5.1 setup. It's just not worth it, plus I really like power dvd's eagle vision myself. I've seen both and PowerDVD>NV Decoder.

Regards,
Mike

[goseecal]

I am so desperate for acceptable-quality DVD that I really have to at least try this. I've had four different graphics cards in the past five years, and every single one has played DVDs at terrible quality. I can download DIVX's that look nicer. I've tried using PowerDVD on its own, software decoding, CLEVISION, all that - and there are tons of artifacts, colors are bleached-out, and nothing at all looks sharp. watching DVDs on my mostly-broken PS2 on my 10-year-old TV looks a million times a better.

i just have to try SOMETHING new :( and from the reviews i've read, it solves at least some of the "jaggy" problems.

if there were just someway to force powerdvd to use it, I guess...

[goseecal]

Trying to use ZoomPlayer to use the Decoder results in these error messages:
FILTER CONNECTION ERROR

NVIDIA VIDEO DECODER - Video Output - Overlay Mixer - Input.0
Not all Filters Can Connect Properly

[saturnotaku]

Then you probably should stick to watching DVDs on your Playstation because it doesn't appear as if anything on your PC will give you "acceptable" quality in your eyes. If you take the time to search through the forums here, you'll see that the NVIDIA DVD decoder (at least the most recent release thereof) is being discussed right now.

[gram_vaz]

This might be a bs answer, but to be honest your really not missing much dude. The quality differnce is minimal between software mode on PowerDVD and hardware, also you only get downmixed 2.0 sound, not dts, or dd if you have a 5.1 setup. It's just not worth it, plus I really like power dvd's eagle vision myself. I've seen both and PowerDVD>NV Decoder.

Regards,
Mike
purevideo does support 5.1. i think many ppl are confused because there is an option in purevideo to downmix 5.1 sound to 2.0.

[ynnek]

don't forget watchng DVD's on your 10 year old tv, will blur and hide alot of artifacts, dithering, etc.. When you watch any vid full screen on your pc monitor, you will be able to see aloto f encoding flaws that you will normally miss on your TV screen, since your PC monitor is so much more sharper.

[Elderblaze]

Give Intervideo Win DVD a shot, it has higher quality video then Power DVD, not as many bells and whistles though.

When i tried to use purevideo and used windows media player to play back dvd all I got was 2.0 sound. I could not find an option anywhere to enable 5.1 audio.

Some things to consider, monitors run at a much higher resolution and are not interlaced, this makes artifacts much more apparant, you generally sit much closer to a monitor then you do a TV, at 5 feet away you'd be hard pressed to see much differnce in either i'd imagine.
Also tv's are generally around 50k color temp where most computer monitors sit around 90k, which is much colder, blue looking. Try setting your monitor to 60k if you can.


Regards,
Mike