ATI Radeon 8500 64MB, need your help -movie problem

Frolic

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Got two problems with my ATI Radeon 8500 64MB:

DVD and AVI movie window appears black on TV. I can see my desktop and all on my TV but movies appear as a black window, at the same time it looks fine on my monitor showing the movie in corresponding window. What do I do wrong, how do I get it working?

And I get jerky DVD playback, but AVI movies run just fine from hdd. What could that be?

I?m running out of ideas.. I've had the card for a week so I'm not to familiar with it yet -trying to learn..

My system:
Asus A7V133
AMD 1.4GHz Athlon T-bird
256 MB PC133 memory
ATI Radeon 8500 64MB DDR
60GB Seagate Barracuda
Soundblaster PCI 128

Oh, and I'm using the short s-video to yellow TV cable converter that goes to the scart thingy adapter on my TV.. ehh hope you get the picture, all that stuff came with the card..
 

Frolic

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Hmm, have no idea, how do I check that in win xp?
During some of the ati installations I got a warning that was suggested might have to do with dma not enabled on my hdd!? I didn't bother looking into it cause I have no clue where to start..
Must say I feel a bit lost..
 

SickBeast

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Jul 21, 2000
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What drivers are you using? I had a similar problem with my Radeon 7000 a couple years back...I forget how I resolved it tho. I think it had something to do with the hydravision. As far as I know the latest catalysts from ati resolved alot of hydravision issues. Good luck.
 

SickBeast

Lifer
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Oh, and to enable DMA:

Right click my computer - properties - hardware - device manager - primary/secondary ide channel - enable dma (it's on one of the tabs)