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**dZeus** · 30 December 2000, 10:53

are you watching PAL DVDs or NTSC DVDs... that can make a huge difference: if the DVD is 24fps NTSC (film based) one frame will be duplicated every second to make the 25fps needed for PAL. When it is 30fps NTSC, 1 frame is dropped every 6 frames, which also result into slight skipping in high motions scenes. The 24 to 25fps conversion is most annoying however

**gluon** · 30 December 2000, 11:14

ok, win2k didn't work; i've just read the matrox-forum with exactly that prob. and found that (PAL DVDs on PAL TVs) are running without any probs with g400 driver 5.55. i'm d/loading that at the moment, and then i'll try it again - but why don't they try to fix it if it's true that PAL-DVD's are running smoothly with 5.55 ? it seems that prob. is getting bigger and bigger with every new driver release....
(found sth. @ http://forum.matrox.com/mgaforum/For...ML/001423.html )
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**dZeus** · 30 December 2000, 11:33

hmm... someone reported the same problem to me, but the odd thing is that I couldn't reproduce it on my system whatever I tried (and I've played back a lot of PAL source stuff to a PAL tv, with many driver versions). seems like this problem is dependant on the system config (hardware or software) to a certain degree (or I did something terribly wrong in the process of reproduction).

Edit: I am running Win2k

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**gluon** · 30 December 2000, 14:27

after a d/load with ~1.0 K/sec i finally got the driver. it's workin' nearly perferct with version 5.55. now I'm gonna make a small DVD-Playback partition... i think that's an acceptable workaround until the guys @ matrox fix that prob. ... I hope they'll do.

-- over and out --

christian

**magick** · 1 January 2001, 07:13

Every new DVD-Player i tried out (WinDVD2k, PowerDVD3.0, Cinemaster2k) showed this anoying behaviour: Every 5 to 20 Minutes the movie starts to slow down (looks like slow motion) while the sound is ok and the picture on the monitor looks perfect. Therefore i deinstalled every DVD-Player and installed my good old trusty Cinemaster 99/98 based setup ( I keep everything incl. dll's in one dir so that i doesn't get overwritten by new Software-Players).
With this setup there are no hangs. I just watched "Any given Sunday" without a problem.
What comes to my mind is that the new players are DirectShow based, while the old Cinemaster is not. Maybe that's a key to the problem, maybe not.

Oh, its PAL to PAL-TV and 6.21 for the records.

**dZeus** · 1 January 2001, 07:44

Do you only get the hangs with DVDs or also with other video material (mpeg 1, divx ;-), etc.)

**gluon** · 2 January 2001, 04:28

other formats like divX or mpeg-4 work perfect on my PC, but at the moment I try to spawn the video to my TV. I've read that it's not directly possible through "DVD-Max" because of that "Overlay"-thing. is there another way to watch mpeg-4 movies on TV than with the "clone" mode ?

is a trial-version of Cinemaster 99/98 still available and/or with which hardware was it bundled?

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**magick** · 2 January 2001, 04:36

Mpegs and Avis/DivX work for me with DVDMax whithout a problem. There are reports of movies that don't play if the width is not dividable by 16, but it seems i've never came across such movies.
On the other hand i can't say if the stutter appears with these kind of movies as i don't have any movies in DivX or Mpeg format that are long enough.

**dZeus** · 2 January 2001, 04:37

only DivX ;-) movies that have a horizontal res. that is not a multiple of 32 don't display through DVD MAX. You can indeed use clone to watch those movies.

However, do you get your tv-stuttering problem with video formats other than DVD, that DO use overlay (and are 25fps, i.e. PAL)?

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