What do I need to know about ATI video cards?

[babgvant]

Originally Posted by Tiki

Thanks for the info...
I wish you had pointed me to your antipack download sooner. Seems like that should be in a sticky somewhere.

You figured it out

Originally Posted by Tiki

Anyway, on to the next challenge... When I play videos from the Sage Online services menu (for example vodcasts from HD Nation), they still use MPlayer rather than Dshow and are not hardware accelerated.

I see there is another setting in the SageClient.properties for mplayer/use_for_online_content=true. Default = true. If I set to false, it will use my directshow filters.

So, when I do this with HDNation (which streams an MP4 file), the video+audio plays for maybe 5-10 seconds and then it drops me back to the Sage menu. I see my CPU usage hovers around 50% during playback and stays there after it kicks out of the video player, until I hit the "Stop" button. From what I can tell, it still thinks it is playing, until I hit Stop.

Does anyone know if there is a "trick" to making this work with streaming video?

I haven't had much luck w/ online content and directshow, I think a custom source filter is probably required so I let mplayer handle it (but I've got a beast of a HTPC so CPU isn't an issue).