Arcsoft TMT and hardware acceleration

[rarredoa]

I've encountered a very annoying problem with TMT. When I enable hardware accelration, the picture quality on ANY blu-ray title gets jagged lines on playback especially with any on-screen txt that's part of the movie.

If I disable hardware acceleration, i bet a beautiful picture, except that AVC titles force my CPU to almost 100% utilization and can cause studdering with playback.

I was under the impression that hardware acceleration gave u a superior blu-ray picture as well, at least PowerDVD Ultra did.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

The reason I went with Arcsoft instead of PowerDVD is because ATI's drivers were NOT compatible with PowerDVD,and because I wanted to take advantage of full resolution of True HD and DTS MA

TMT tech-support recommended that I re-install the software, but that didn't do any good.

[prerich]

Originally Posted by rarredoa

I've encountered a very annoying problem with TMT. When I enable hardware accelration, the picture quality on ANY blu-ray title gets jagged lines on playback especially with any on-screen txt that's part of the movie.

If I disable hardware acceleration, i bet a beautiful picture, except that AVC titles force my CPU to almost 100% utilization and can cause studdering with playback.

I was under the impression that hardware acceleration gave u a superior blu-ray picture as well, at least PowerDVD Ultra did.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

TMT tech-support recommended that I re-install the software, but that didn't do any good.

Long time no hear good friend!!!! I use TMT (as you know) and here's what I have a tendency to see. TMT first receive hardware acceration with Nvidia -it took a while with ATI. TMT (not in all cases but it did it with me) also acts funny if PDVD is installed on the same machine. I had to uninstall PDVD and TMT was fine (they didn't play well on the same machine). TMT works flawlessly with my Nvidia card and motherboard (I'm using the 9300/8500gt Nvidia boost via HDMI). It could be any of those two things. Do you have a 8xxx series or 9xxx series Nvidia card around? If you do - try it. I know you probrably got the 4870 for its gaming and its HDMI audio capabilities - but just to rule the ATI card out - try it. If that doesn't work, uninstall PDVD and TMT, restart - install TMT and see how it works then.

Are you running a 64 bit O/S ? I see that you have 4gb of ram.

[rarredoa]

Originally Posted by prerich

Long time no hear good friend!!!! I use TMT (as you know) and here's what I have a tendency to see. TMT first receive hardware acceration with Nvidia -it took a while with ATI. TMT (not in all cases but it did it with me) also acts funny if PDVD is installed on the same machine. I had to uninstall PDVD and TMT was fine (they didn't play well on the same machine). TMT works flawlessly with my Nvidia card and motherboard (I'm using the 9300/8500gt Nvidia boost via HDMI). It could be any of those two things. Do you have a 8xxx series or 9xxx series Nvidia card around? If you do - try it. I know you probrably got the 4870 for its gaming and its HDMI audio capabilities - but just to rule the ATI card out - try it. If that doesn't work, uninstall PDVD and TMT, restart - install TMT and see how it works then.

Are you running a 64 bit O/S ? I see that you have 4gb of ram.

I am running 32bit xp home. 4 GB of RAM. I have uninstalled PDVD already, still same problem. I will try to update my ATI drivers as soon as I get a chance. My NVIDIA 8800GT card (when I had it) was awesome for blu-ray, 'cause all the drivers were compatible with PDVD. I was really bugged by the fact that PDVD downsampled the DTS and Dolby HD sound. So i just HAD to hear the difference for myself. I really hope TMT keeps the full 24 bit 48 khz stream before it reaches the X-FI DAC's. From what I can tell TrueHD soundtracks are slightly low in volume still, but DTS MA is purely explosive to say the least, I just wanna correct this video problem.

I'll keep u posted

[prerich]

Originally Posted by rarredoa

I am running 32bit xp home. 4 GB of RAM. I have uninstalled PDVD already, still same problem. I will try to update my ATI drivers as soon as I get a chance. My NVIDIA 8800GT card (when I had it) was awesome for blu-ray, 'cause all the drivers were compatible with PDVD. I was really bugged by the fact that PDVD downsampled the DTS and Dolby HD sound. So i just HAD to hear the difference for myself. I really hope TMT keeps the full 24 bit 48 khz stream before it reaches the X-FI DAC's. From what I can tell TrueHD soundtracks are slightly low in volume still, but DTS MA is purely explosive to say the least, I just wanna correct this video problem.

I'll keep u posted

10-4, check my thread on the Nvidia 9300/9400 series motherboards

[essinger]

Originally Posted by rarredoa

I've encountered a very annoying problem with TMT. When I enable hardware accelration, the picture quality on ANY blu-ray title gets jagged lines on playback especially with any on-screen txt that's part of the movie.

If I disable hardware acceleration, i bet a beautiful picture, except that AVC titles force my CPU to almost 100% utilization and can cause studdering with playback.

I know this is an old thread, but I just read it. I've encountered the same thing with TMT and hardware acceleration. Glad I'm not the only one who sees this problem! Luckily my CPU can keep up on everything but a fast pan.

Anybody ever figure out a fix for it?

I've also got Nero Showtime for Blu-ray. The hardware acceleration does work on it (but so many other type of issues it is not really useable.)