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NVIDIA GPU2 and ffdshow not friends

Parja

Parja

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I found an interesting stability issue with NVIDIA GPU2 and ffdshow last night on my main machine with a GTX 280.

I was trying to watch some movies I had ripped to XVID a while back and installed the latest version of ffdshow to decode them. Within a couple of seconds of launching any of them, the screen goes to a weird pattern of a single color and black for about 10 seconds, then the display turns off completely (monitor goes into standby mode). I have to reboot to recover.

I found that if I quit the GPU client, it works fine. I also found that if I removed ffdshow and installed XVID instead, it works fine with the GPU client running.

Weird stuff, huh? Anyone else have any issues like this or know why it might be happening?
 
I have had this issue with playing movies. I was able to exit and quit the GPU before everything was FUBAR'ed.

Now I just turn off folding before playing movies, or playing games.
 
I've not had that issue. I do have to pause the GPU2 client if video playback gets choppy, but otherwise, no issues.
 
I have not had any trouble like that with Vista or Win7. I had nasty video performance problems with movies under WinXP with the GPU client running which is the reason why I switched to Vista.

 
one im kind of confused on why you would use ffdshow to decode xvid.. when theres no point into using ffdshow to decode xvid, tiy can get the same quality out of any decoding codec with less cpu usage.. ffdshow is more for direct show content, x264/h264 content.... but as per the problem i wouldnt know since ive always turned off the gpu client to play movies since all my movies are DXVA compliant..
 
Nothing wrong with using ffdshow to decode xvid. DirectShow is an API for decoding content, no matter what it is.

Go into your ffdshow video config and (un)check NV12 under the Output panel's colorspaces.
 
Snowknight26 said:
Nothing wrong with using ffdshow to decode xvid. DirectShow is an API for decoding content, no matter what it is.
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Exactly. I like ffdshow because it's the one stop shop that can decode damn near anything.

Go into your ffdshow video config and (un)check NV12 under the Output panel's colorspaces.
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I'll give that a try. Thanks.
 
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