Video Corruption

I have a Travelmate 8204WLMi. Whenever I enable WMV Hardware acceleration in Catalyst Control Center, WMV 9 encoded video experience corruption (think technicolors). Catalyst 6.6 trying to play Full Metal Panic released by KickAssAnime. Problem occurs across all media players I've tested (WMP 11, MPC, Cyberlink DVD). Disabling WMV Hardware Acceleration resolves the issue. Any ideas guys?

 

Do all the colors look inverted? I have a similar issue in my desktop... don't remember the exact fix, but under Windows media player, go to options, then video, and under wmv whatever, click advanced. Mess around with the settings in advanced and you should be able to undo it.

 

No it's not inverted. The video looks corrupted as in pixels distort into different colors. I'll put up a screen shot if I can later.

 

OK. Have you downloaded the latest media encoder from microsofts website? You could also try upgrading the Cat 6.7. Does the problem exist with stock drivers? Perhaps some of your AVIVO settings are messed up.

 

My bad, I have Catalyst 6.7. I don't know about stock drivers as I just got the series again. I honestly don't see what in AVIVO settings could possibly be messing up as there scant amount of settings as is. I don't see how the media encoder factors into this.

 

Couldn't hurt to install the latest media encoder from microsoft.

Obviously if it only occurs when wmv acceleration is enabled, then it is the wmv acceleration that is the problem. Therefore it could be a driver issue, a video setting issue, or perhaps an encoder issue of some sort.

What is wrong with just using the computer with wmv acceleration disabled? I never noticed a difference between them anyway.

 

Nothing at all, this is more of a curiousity to me than anything else. T2500 is more than powerful enough to play any video I'd watch and the videos play fine without hardware acceleration. WMV Hardware Acceleration also has no effect on h.264 decoding it seems. I'd just like to know what could be causing this. An encoder would have no affect on playback. I'm fairly sure it's either driver issue or a hardware issue, but I could be wrong. I'm hoping it's just a driver issue as a faulty video card would NOT be fun. I've already sent this laptop back to Acer 3 times now.

 

Hmm... I'd just leave it for now unless you start having serious problems. Then I'd try out some different drivers, and also try doing a clean install as a last resort.

 

I had the same problem with mine, im sure it is not a driver problem. I tried out everything with all kind of drivers so I just formated it and used recovery DVD and the samething happened. Just sent it to Acer and mine was just less than 60 days of use. Im really sad about that, just hope it can be fixed or replaced as fast as possible.

 

Hmmm. Well I haven't heard this about any other X1600 based system, and my Z96J is fine, so I don't think the X1600 is to blame. What, then, would it be?

 

I really don't know. I was using Outlook when the problem happened with mine the screen got black and when it appeared again the problem was there, i restarted my notebook thinking it could be any simple problem that a restart could fix, but at the logon screen vertical pink stripes at the lower part of the screen appeared. I tryed out other things to see what else were affected and i discovered it was a general video problem. Started to research and try others drivers but nothing worked for me, so i decided to use recovery disks as my last hope and the problem still there. Disabling all hardware acceleration there is no problem, its a video issue and relationed wit ATI x1600 graphics for sure or any notebook video controler that had really been damaged by any reason i can't explain.

I am an 5672 WLMi sad owner.

 

At first what you described sounded like a faulty screen.

Then you stated it goes away when disabling acceleration. You haven't OC'ed the thing, have you? I have seen things like that happen with overheating graphics cards, and graphics cards damaged due to overheating.

 

No , I did not overclocked the video card, it´s true that my model of this notebook get really hot and i think it can be related with that for sure. How i said i was just reading e-mails when it happened. I already had read other users complaining about heat issues with this model of notebook.

 

I don't know what to suggest. Maybe if I had one of these I could work something out, but still, it's and odd issue. Good luck with the notebook. Can't do anything more for you.

 

Coincidentally, heating is also the reason why I think it's the X1600 itself. The retards over at Acer Repair Depot completely forgot to reattach the fan (in the sense that they didn't plug it into the power port on motherboard) and place the heat sink so when they sent it back to me after the first time I had it returned, the laptop over heated and stopped working. How that managed to get pass their testing is beyond me. I had to ship it back to them to get them to fix it. Then they shipped it back missing part of the bottom cover O_O. Anyways, that's why I think it might be hardware at fault due to the overheat incident.

 

the original problem is a driver issue that has existed for quite some time...

 

I read about that before, but they were talking about Catalyst 4.10. I assumed that by 6.7, it would be fixed by now. Apparently Catalyst 4.9 did not have this issue.

 

It´s not driver for sure, i did a full recovery and the problem still there.

 

Um, full recovery doesn't mean it's not a driver issue, full recovery just goes back to original drivers, if they were bad, then you'd still see the issue (not saying it is a driver issue since I've never seen this problem just saying).

 

There was no problem with original drivers, used it for a few weeks with no problem, then suddenly it started to show the problem with the more updated drivers or the original ones. Take your own conclusions.

 

Ahh, sorry didn't read that into your post.

Yeap that would seem to indicate hardware