ATI 3450 and VMR9

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I just upgraded to 6.5 and EVR works fine on imported videos but not with DVDs using Vista-64 and cyberlink decoders. Switching DVDs back to VMR9 worked fine. I didn't run the betas this time so perhaps that's normal but I thought it was odd.

[panteragstk]

Originally Posted by gplasky

EVR on WIndows XP does not support hardware acceleration. There is no DXVA2 on XP. You'll only get ha on Vista. (And maybe Windows 7)

Gerry

That is what is making me want to switch to vista. I'm just having a hard time because xp has been so stable for me up to this point. I know lots of people are using sage successfully with vista, but I'd rather not mess with it. Another reason is that I can't quite remember if WHS supports vista or not. I seem to recall that it does, but I'm not sure. I think I will be switching if someone could confirm mpeg2, .h264, and vc-1 acceleration working on vista with evr and sage.

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Supported Operating Systems for Home Computers
The following operating systems for home computers are supported to work with Windows Home Server:
The Windows VistaTM Operating System
• Windows Vista Home Basic
• Windows Vista Home N (European Union only)
• Windows Vista Home Premium
• Windows Vista Business
• Windows Vista Business N (European Union only)
• Windows Vista Enterprise
• Windows Vista Ultimate

(64-bit support was added with PP1)

EDIT:
The Vista "Home" editions don't support the WHS remote access feature though...

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Panteragstk,

I did some more testing, I upgraded drivers and reinstalled one of my decoders and things actually got worse but I am able to play VC-1 files.

I looked for some samples and grabbed this one:
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...g_Sea_1080.exe

Extracted it and it would play fine in WMP11 but not my Sage client with the ATI HD4870 using EVR and the PDVD8 decoder.

Then I re-installed my Nvidia Pure Video decoder (the PDVD8 install broke it I think) and tried it and still no go with EVR so I switched back to VMR-9 and it played in Sage.

Then I upgraded my ATI drivers to 9.1 and rebooted. After that the VC-1 samples played using either Nvidia or the PDVD8 decoders but ONLY if using VMR-9 and now NONE of my videos play using EVR anymore. Neither DVD nor imported videos.

I tried using EVR with Nvidia Pure Video decoder, MS Mpeg-2 decoder, Cyberlink PDVD8 decoder and the SageTV MPEG decoder, none of them work with EVR anymore.

I'm at a loss to explain why it's so picky and why other people have different results so that's why I linked a sample file so we could all try the same media. I'm sure there will be varied results.

My WHS server (with a nvidia card) plays the VC-1 file in VMr-9 mode fine too. My Vista-64 client with the ATI card, has PDVD8, Nvidia Pure Video installed (same as the server) and I have the Mpeg-4 decoder set to DirectShow on both as well.

Test your system using the linked media and let us know if it plays for you on your ATI client machine.

[panteragstk]

Plays fine with EVR and ati 8.4 drivers. Sage found my wmp11 decoders and used them just fine. This is the only file I have seen use them though.

Here is a line from my log.

DShowGraphFilters=Default DirectSound Device,VidRend,WMVideo Decoder DMO,AC3Filter,WMAudio Decoder DMO,E:\Temp\The_Living_Sea_1080\The_Living_Sea_1080.wmv,

You may not have the right drivers/decoders installed. ATI has been really messing up their drivers lately (as far as video playback is concerned).

[S_M_E]

Interesting. I'm still using VMR9 because I've not found the solution to get EVR to render properly on my vista64 Sage client but they do work with external players. It very well could be drivers or codecs but I really don't know what the issue is yet. On the upside, I no longer have to use overlay.