Playback problem with PowerDVd 4

[cd090580]

Hi,

When I play a dvd or a svcd from my hard disk of from a dvd, the video window of Powerdvd becomes black for about 1 second and then the picture is normal. This occurs several times while watching a video.

Since I canged the graphic card, I tought it was because of old drivers so I format my hard disk and reinstall windows but the problem is still here.

With the old gfx card (3dfx voodoo 3) the picture was fine.
Now with a Ati Radeon 7500 (Catalyst 5.1), the picture is perfect expect those annoying black screen during the video. If I switch off the hardware acceleration, these black screens don't appear but the video is laggy.

Is 230W for Power Supply is enough for a redeon 7500 (I noticed some small artifacts on the screen when I take more power from the cpu (i.e.: run cpu burn to make the cpu run at 100%).

What can I do ?
Thanks.

[subferno]

I also have a similar problem, playing a DVD in a Sony Dru500a burner drive using Power DVD 6. The screen goes black and the audio stutters horribly. I really need help in fixing this problem.

[cd090580]

I noticed that my problem only occurs when the video is played with Bob deinterlacing. When PowerDVD selects Weave the video is fine and clear.

When bob is used, I can see some remaining interlace artifacts.
I use hardware acceleration without HW acceleration the picture is good but laggy.

[cd090580]

No solution ??? this problem is very annoying when watching a video.

[subferno]

I've had this problem for several years but never figured out how to fix it. I am using Zoom Player that uses the CyberLink PowerDVD 6 video and audio decoder and it plays just fine. Its something stupid with PowerDVD itself.