Hi everyone,
I've just downloaded the new trial version of PowerDVD5, but I notice some bugs in the mpeg-2 decoder especially when playing SVCD files.

When I play a svcd file with the new version, I got some mpeg artifacts that doesn't appear with Powerdvd4 (like if the mpeg file is damaged). I've made a screenshot with version a and one with version 5.

I try PowerDVD on another computer also with Windows 98 and the error still occur but if I reinstall Powerdvd 4 instead of Powerdvd5 the file plays without any artifact.



Screenshot with PowerDVD 5


The same with powerdvd 4.

So is it a bug with PowerDVD or a bug with windows/directX.

I run Powerdvd on Windows 98 SE in French with DirectX 9.

Here is the infos given by Powerdvd:
Player Information:
Player Region Code: 2
Current Drive: E:
Title Region Code: Not Available

Audio Attributes: Not Available

Hardware Information:
3DNow! Technology: Not Detected
Enhanced 3DNow! Technology: Not Detected
3DNow! Professional Technology: Not Detected
IA MMX Technology: In Use
IA Streaming SIMD Extensions: Not Detected
IA SSE 2: Not Detected
Video Accelerator: Not Detected
Multispeaker Audio Device: Not Detected
SPDIF Output Device: Not Detected

Thanks.

ps: I also send this to Cyberlink's techincal support and I wait fo their response.