Messages posted by DaveThe7th

Quote: Hi Mac -

The screenshot is from your Preferences dialogue, but I see what you mean...

Try this:

In Windows XP:
1. Locate the file - Windows XP Home c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
2. Open "hosts" in Notepad
3. Add host name at bottom of text, beneath 127.0.0.1 localhost - the text to add is 127.0.0.1 liveupdate.cyberlink.com
4. Save file and restart.

In Vista & Win 7:

1. Browse to Start -> All Programs -> Accessories
2. Right click "Notepad" and select "Run as administrator"
3. Click "Continue" on the UAC prompt
4. Click File -> Open
5. Browse to "C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc"
6. Change the file filter drop down box from "Text Documents (*.txt)" to "All Files (*.*)"
7. Select "hosts" and click "Open"
8. Add host name at bottom of text, beneath 127.0.0.1 localhost - the text to add is 127.0.0.1 liveupdate.cyberlink.com
9. Close Notepad. Save when prompted.

Cheers - Tony

Awesome man, thanks for this. I got tired of the constant popups and ads in software I had already paid for. I didn't edit my hosts file though, I blocked liveupdate.cyberlink.com in my firewall.

That's exactly what I'm saying. It seems to be faster to use the available GPU power to do just the encoding, rather than both the decoding and encoding.

I'll bet that it's very configuration dependent.

One more update...

The culprit is is using the GPU to do the decoding. At least on my config, turning that off, but still leaving the GPU enabled for encoding is the fastest.

Well, son of a gun, that fixed it. Many, many thanks Kevin.

Now, would you believe that on an i7-860 system it's actually slower than doing cpu only encoding?

The other odd thing is that Mediashow Expresso does gpu encoding without Avivo installed, so that begs the question of does all Director do is pass the video through to Avivo?

Thanks again, you have earned yourself good karma tonight.

Dave.

Thanks Kevin, I do appreciate the help.

I was about to download the converter, until I read that it is only for the 4000 series cards. I'll give it a try though.

Thanks,
Dave.

Hi guys.

Yes I have it checked in preferences.

It should be supported for h.264 iPod encodes, because that works fine on my 4670 on my other machine.

I think I'm going to re-install the drivers for the second time

Hello everyone.

Have a new computer with a Radeon 5770, driver 10.4 . I have enabled ATI Stream in the preferences, but hardware video encoder is not available when I produce.

Any idea?

Anybody tried using mkv (h.264) files as input to PowerDirector 8?

I can import the file most of the time - sometimes the program hangs. I can play the file in the preview window

But if I try to add the file to the timeline the program crashes every time. Details are that dmfsource.ax crashed.

Any ideas?

Thanks!