Bug (?) with DirectShow DVD filters
Michael Tortolano
However on one particular machine that we have we are experiencing a strange
problem
which by a process of deduction may be either a bug (or feature) in
DirectShow.
What we see is that if we run the software DVD player through its own
frontend (i.e.
using the ATI player GUI) the DVD plays back properly. However if we try to
run
using the DirectShow DVD Sample program (or any DShow player) the playback
is corrupted with MPEG2 artefacts (large red blobs etc) and then dies.
On all the other machines we have the DShow frontends work fine, it only
seems
to be on this one hardware configuration (details below).
What we can't understand is what is happening differently when we use these
software DVD codecs
in their native UI compared to running their DirectShow filters.
Does anyone have any inside information on what DShow might be doing
differently to the native
UI's that would cause it to behave in this way?
Codecs tried:
ATI Player 6.00 (Cinemaster 1.0.29),
ATI Player 3.10 (Cinemaster 1.0.28)
WinDVD (v2.5)
The machine in Question is configured as follows:
ASUS P2B-D MB
256 Meg memory
2 x Intel P3 - 450
IDE Pioneer 113 DVD drive
ATI All In Wonder 128 GX card (16 MB version)
Windows 98 SE
Thanks for any help,
Michael Tortolano
Aspect Systems Limited
Sylvain Bertrand
custom filters installed with those players. Because sometimes a decoder
filter is made to work with some specific filters. It could be also a
software protection of their code to forbid other people to use their
filters... check the license...
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Sylvain Bertrand
Thomson Marconi Sonar PTY LTD
Australia
bertrand...@tms-pty.com
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Jim Taylor
the DVDTest application or the Windows DVD player and see if it works there.
If so, it's a DVDSample bug. If not, it's a decoder bug.
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