Green Screen.on PowerDVD 9

ToniP678

Newbie Joined: Jul 23, 2009 04:07 Messages: 13 Offline

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Aug 18, 2009 04:15

With the latest update there are no more subtitle glitches (subs displayed sometimes way too fast).

Now I have another problem (DVD only, Blu Ray works fine):
with Classic-Mode I get sometimes (3 out of 5) a green screen (audio works fine), means I see only green colour on the screen.
When I switch to Cinema-Mode it works perfect. Switching back to Classic-Mode gets things sometimes right.

Starting in Cinema-Mode works perfect - switching to Classic-Mode gets me 60% a green screen.

Unluckily Cinema-Mode doesn't support all features (Read it clearly ...)

I have a Core2Quad / ATI 4670 / Samsung T240 (DVI)./ Vista64

Other players works without this green screen effect - so it must be PowerDVD.

Wasn't there a similar problem years ago with XP? Alpha / Transperancy effects I think ....

John

Newbie Joined: Aug 19, 2009 18:46 Messages: 7 Offline

Aug 19, 2009 18:54

Exact same thing for me Toni.
I was hoping you already found the answer
I have a I7 950/ATI 4850/Vista 64

As with you, other players - VLC, WMC, work fine.

Hoping to find an answer soon.

Thanks,
John

ToniP678

Newbie Joined: Jul 23, 2009 04:07 Messages: 13 Offline

Aug 22, 2009 04:32

Green Screen gone.

I don't no exactly why.
I installed an older game which tries to install an older DirectX Version. Normally Vista should block that, but I think it can't hurt to reinstall the latest DX Version (March 2009).
Today I try to reproduce the Green Screen for Cyberlink (they want a screendump) and nothing happens. After 8 different DVD's - no Green Screen.
The only greater change I did to the system was the reinstall of DX, so I hope that the simple reinstall solved THIS Problem.
But I get another problem . To solve the above I installed the latest Catalyst 9.8 (doesn't help) and get another Problem: Black with Blu-Ray playback isn't black anymore - it's more a middle grey.
Anybody any idea?

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Andreas Schöneck

Newbie Joined: Sep 02, 2009 19:16 Messages: 2 Offline

Sep 02, 2009 19:39

After updating to rev. 2029 I now get green screens.

DVD movies and menus are partially (about 80-90% of the lower image) covered with green blocks. VLC (DirectX out) plays fine. Cinema mode seems to be working correctly.

Also, some DVD menus are innavigable.

OS is Win7 RTM x64
Here's some information from PowerDVD

Player information:
  Player region code: 2
  Current drive: R:
  Title region code: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, All

Display information:
  Video mode: Interlaced
  Display mode: DirectDraw
  FourCC code: YUY2
  Surface type: Overlay

Video attributes:
  Video compression mode: MPEG-2 (DxVA off)
  TV system: 625/50 (PAL)
  Aspect ratio: 16:9
  Display mode: Only Letterbox
  Source picture resolution: 720x576 (625/50)
  Frame rate: 25.00
  Source picture letterboxed: Not letterboxed
  Bitrate: 0.30Mbps

Audio attributes: 
  Audio coding mode: Dolby Digital
  Sampling rate: 48kHz
  Audio application mode: Not Specified
  Number of audio channels:2.0
  Bitrate: 192 Kbps
  Number of audio streams: 3

Subpicture attribute:
  Number of subtitles: 8

Hardware Information:
  Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU          6600  @ running at 2404 MHz
  3DNow! technology:  Not Detected
  Enhanced 3DNow! technology:  Not Detected
  3DNow! professional technology:  Not Detected
  IA MMX technology:  In Use
  IA sStreaming SIMD extensions:  In Use
  IA SSE 2:  In Use
  Video accelerator:  DirectX VA (not in use)
  Multispeaker audio device:  Lautsprecher (Creative SB X-Fi) (in use)
  S/PDIF output device:  Lautsprecher (Creative SB X-Fi) (not in use)

DXVA2 Mpeg2 Support Profile: BSP: (X) IDCT: (O) MC: (X)
  DXVA2 H.264 Support Profile: BSP: (X) BSP_Intel: (X) MC: (O) MC_ATI: (X)
  DXVA2 VC-1 Support Profile: BSP: (X) BSP_Intel: (X) IDCT: (X) MC: (O)

Maybe a regression...?

wowexec

Newbie Joined: Aug 16, 2009 19:44 Messages: 3 Offline

Sep 06, 2009 19:33

Hi to all,
same problem to me.

Powerdvd 9 deluxe build 2010 on Vista x64.
I've an ATI Radeon Hd 4850.

It's a very annoying issue; if i insert an already viewed dvd and i choose "Restart" the playback becomes green and corrupted. This doesn't happens to new dvd.