Parhelia and DVD quality

[Lukappaseidue]

Hi all,
I'm a Parhelia owner and I'm really disappointed about its dvd quality compared to my previous Matrox G550 ang G450 too. It's incredible.....
Watching the same DVD MOVIE in the same PC, changing obviously Video card and drivers, parhelia shows a quality worse than the other 2. I'm not talking about smooth, but definition and quality of images. In Parhelia images I see artifacts during playback, specially in dark scenes (it seems that video has a bit of highlighting), while the same in G550 or G450 is fantastic, no artifact or strange effects (dark is sometime darker and sometime lighter in Parhelia)
What's the issue?
P.S.: I've the same issue @ the Tv-out

This is my system:


WINDOWS XP PRO + SP1
WINDVD 4.0.11.215 (LATEST VERSION AVAILABLE)
LATEST MATROX PARHELIA DRIVERS (102 FINAL)
DX 8.1
VIA DRIVERS 4.43
SBLIVE AUDIGY DRIVERS LATEST VERSION

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ASUS A7V333 BIOS 1015
AMD XP1800+ (NOT OVERCLOCKED --- TEMP. IS VERY LOW 40c° FULL LOAD)
512 MB RAM DDR333 SAMSUNG RETAIL
MATROX PARHELIA 128 MB RETAIL (NOT OVERCLOCKED) IRQ NOT SHARED
SOUNDBLASTER LIVE AUDIGY OEM
CONTROLLER SCSI ADAPTEC 2910B
DVD SCSI PIONEER 305S (10X40X)
CD.RW PLEXTOR 1210TS
HD IBM GXP 180 80GB UDMA 5 ENABLED
MONITOR LG FLATRON FT795+PLUS @ 1024X768@100Hz 1 GIGA COLOR

PDESK SETTING:
ABOUT DVD PLAYBACK, ALL FEATURES IMPROVING QUALITY HAVE BEEN ENABLED

[Faramir1966]

Are you using hardware motion blur compansation? (or what it is called in english)
If so...try disabling.......removed those artifacts for me.....

[Lukappaseidue]

Thank U very much Faramir1966, I'll try asap.... (at this moment I'm far away from my HTPC)
U have had the same problem?

[Lukappaseidue]

wow
wonderfull
without words

[Faramir1966]

Yes....same problems.......
But i wont happen on all movies......dont know why.....

[Lukappaseidue]

Could u be more clear?
I've tryed Tomb Raider, Matrix, The Mummy 2 and everything seems working fine, at least.


P.S: I'm using WINDVD PLATINUM

[The AngeL]

Try using Power DVD XP 4.0 with the latest patch1811. I have WinDVD too, but the same problem only if i use it on my G550. I use now PowerDVD or ZoomPlayer and the artifacts are away.

[leech]

That's what I use, PowerDVD XP has caused no problems for me. I've tried many movies.

Fellowship of the Rings (Special Extended edition)
Star Wars Episode 2.
Three Amigos
The Crow..

Geez, the list goes on and on, and no artifacts here. Nice ad crystal clear.

Leech

[stefanoroma]

I also am experiencing problems with DVD playback. No artifacts and very good colour quality. But motion is not smooth when the entire background moves horizontaly or vertically. I am also experiencing some little jumps. It is small thing, i.e. overall quality is acceptable. The problem is that my second monitor is a videoprojector (on a 100" screen) and therefore also minor things become huge probelms.
I have tried all possible setting:
Motion compensation on/off
Bus mastering on/off
different resolutions
different refresh rates
different graphic size on the BIOS (64 and 128)
different coulour depth (16 mil and 1 bn coulours)

I am quite desperate and probably will buy an ATI card.

Any suggestions ??


My system is:
WINDOWS XP PRO + SP1
WINDVD 4.0
LATEST MATROX PARHELIA DRIVERS (102 FINAL)
DX 8.1
latest VIA DRIVERS

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ASUS A7V200 (with latest BIOS)
AMD Athlos900 (NOT OVERCLOCKED)
512 MB RAM
MATROX PARHELIA 128 MB RETAIL (NOT OVERCLOCKED) IRQ NOT SHARED
SOUNDBLASTER LIVE AUDIGY2 retail
DVD PIONEER 106
PCTV card
Gemtek radio card

note: I get perfetct video acquisition through the PCTV s-video input but I have to set the refresh rate to 50 hz (same frequency as PAL signal)

[Peter Aragon]

Try using Pal60, that got rid of the stutteryness for me