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When I play a DVD movie, there are tiny horizontal flickers on the screen

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AlphaIVT

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The resolution is pretty bad because I have tiny horizontal flickers on the screen, it only happens when I play a DVD movie on my DVDROM. Any insight?
 
1) New drivers (vid card and agp)
2) Direct x 7a (may need reinstall - check dxdiag)
3) Different Player (WinDVD works best for me)
 
Its a Pionner 104Slot DVDROM, Hollywood Plus MPEG card, and Elsa Erazor III TNT2 32MB AGP.

Could i possiblye be the DirectX drivers? I have DIrectX 8 final.
 
Are you talk about banding? Is this decoder card runnin with an external cable through the VGA. What res are you running at?
 
i don't know much about the terms you're using (ie. banding), the setup is like this:

Monitor cable plugs into MPEG card, MPEG card to video card output. The bad thing is that the MPEG card has the VGA output and that Svideo type cable (the cable that goes from video card to MEPg card) so close together, the Svideo type cable can fall apart, but it doesn't. Before It worked perfectly, I don't remember when and how this flickering started.
 
sounds like a bad connection to me between the passthrough cable. when did you start noticing the problem? if it occurred around the time you installed d3d 8.0, then maybe you should try uninstalling it. also, i'd recommend that you use software decoding if your cpu can handle it, or unless you use the s-video out features of the decoder card. the 2d quality degradation is non-existent compared to what pass-through cables produce, especially external pass throughs. what's your hardware setup btw, os, etc...
 
It could well be banding. Basically it will be a whole bunch of lines through your display. Is your display very unclear as compared to when you just had your video card hooked up not through the decoder card? If so then I will attribute your problem to the cable hooking up the decoder card to the video card. It does that because it is not well shielded. I had the same problem and just ended up pulling the decoder card and just using a software decoder.
 
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