Radeon + PowerDVD + hardware acceleration?

[Shanteli]

Does anyone know how to "enable" the hardware acceleration feature on PowerDVD?

In the information part it only states.

IA MMX Technology : In Use
IA Streaming SIMD Extensions : In Use
Video Accelerator : Not Detected

And I can't use the ATI DVD player becasue I can't get the DTS digital out singal to come through, only the PCM Digital.

 

[Workin']

Doesn't the digital audio stream come out of your sound card? I would suspect the DTS problem is with the sound card, not the DVD player software. I'm assuming you have an external DTS decoder, maybe in a receiver or something?

I could be wrong. But I don't think so.

 

[Shanteli]

Yes I have an external receiver...the stream is only detected when using PowerDVD (It has settings where you can specify SPDIF out). If I use any other player that does not support the SPDIF out feature, my receiver only stated "PCM Digital" and does not change to "Dolby Digital or DTS" when a DVD starts playing.

 

[Hawk]

What version of PowerDVD do you have? The newest is *supposed* to support ATI's DVD features, though I tried it and it didn't work...But I heard WinDVD works?

 

[Shanteli]

I have version 3.0...but still nothing. Is WinDVD a retail type product?

 

[Workin']

OK, I see....

WinDVD is a commercial DVD player software. Don't know a link, but it should show up in a Google search.

Surf on over to Rage Underground and download their "Tweaker" program. I think it has a way to enable SPDIF with the ATi player. Or try DVD Genie, sorry, you'll have to hit Google for that, too.

Good luck!

 

[Shanteli]

Wonderful, I'll look into that. Thanks!

 

[tboo]

Win DVD 2.3M(multichannel) does upport Radeon's hardware dvd assists. I used to think Cinemaster 2000 did, but apparently it doesnt-you have to edit some reg. files 1st

 

[Comp10]

PowerDVD does not support the Radeon's iDCT hardware acceleration, however, the latest version of WinDVD does. And in case your interested the ATI DVD player can be used to send a Dobly Digital signal through your souncards SPDIF (but sadly not DTS) if you enable the SPDIF option using a program called DVD Genie which you can download from here.