Full Screen Blu-Ray on HD3450

Jokester · 28 Jun 2008 at 22:21

Got a bit of a problem with a new build using a HD3450 (latest drivers), screen at 2560x1600 and playing HD movies using Cyberlink.

The problem is I can't get it to go full screen, it limits it to 1920x1080 centered when I select full screen in Cyberlink. Is there anyway to get it to scale to the full screen in the ATI drivers?

When I go into the Avivo section in CCC the scale to full screen option is greyed out and stick to source is selected.

AbsenceJam · 28 Jun 2008 at 22:32

Does this only happen with BD in PowerDVD? SD okay?
See if you get the same problem with MPC-HC - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=170561 (open the largest m2ts in STREAM directory).

Alexrose1uk · 28 Jun 2008 at 23:10

Think I remember a review mentioning that's limited to UVD2, and is a new feature for the 48 series cards.

Jokester · 28 Jun 2008 at 23:14

Bummer.

chaosophy · 28 Jun 2008 at 23:20

Try the 'attributes' section under the display itself in CCC. There are scaling options in there as well. The ones under the Avivo section are the theatre mode options if you have more than one screen, for overlay.

AbsenceJam · 28 Jun 2008 at 23:24

Alexrose1uk said:
Think I remember a review mentioning that's limited to UVD2, and is a new feature for the 48 series cards.

From a bit of Googling this does appear to be the case which is very strange as the standard upscale after the decode shouldn't be a problem. Makes me wonder if it's just PowerDVD.

Jokester · 28 Jun 2008 at 23:37

chaosophy said:
Try the 'attributes' section under the display itself in CCC. There are scaling options in there as well. The ones under the Avivo section are the theatre mode options if you have more than one screen, for overlay.

Already set to scale to full screen in there as well.

AbsenceJam said:
From a bit of Googling this does appear to be the case which is very strange as the standard upscale after the decode shouldn't be a problem. Makes me wonder if it's just PowerDVD.

It's definitely the GPU, it used to work flawlessly on a 8800GT. Might just get a cheap Nvidia 8 series card to replace it.

AbsenceJam · 28 Jun 2008 at 23:47

I mean if it's just in PowerDVD that this UVD limitation presents itself.
What CPU are you using? Might be able to happily decode with CPU alone.

Jokester · 28 Jun 2008 at 23:53

Using a E1200, whenever I switch Avivo off, it re-enables itself in PowerDVD so I'm assuming the processor isn't up to it.

maddness · 29 Jun 2008 at 10:56

try newer catalysts, which powerdvd are you using 7 or 8?

try windvd 9 blu-ray

Jokester · 29 Jun 2008 at 11:01

On the current release of Catalysts and PowerDVD 7.3 Ultra (need it for HD-DVD support). The demo version of Windvd doesn't support Blu-ray playback and looking at the cost of it anyway, I'll be cheaper buying a Nvidia card

Devil_Spawn · 29 Jun 2008 at 11:17

ive heard many good things about MPC-HC, have you tried it? http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/index.html

also, try going back to catalyst 8.5, as avivo etc is broken in 8.6

V1N · 29 Jun 2008 at 12:21

Jokester said:
On the current release of Catalysts and PowerDVD 7.3 Ultra (need it for HD-DVD support). The demo version of Windvd doesn't support Blu-ray playback and looking at the cost of it anyway, I'll be cheaper buying a Nvidia card

Maybe you could possibly try the demo of PowerDVD 8, just to see if the problem is fixed?

Vin.

EDIT: http://www.cyberlink.com/multi/download/trials_1_ENU.html

Jokester · 29 Jun 2008 at 12:36

V1N said:
Maybe you could possibly try the demo of PowerDVD 8, just to see if the problem is fixed?

Vin.

EDIT: http://www.cyberlink.com/multi/download/trials_1_ENU.html

- Does not support Intel G33/G35 in Blu-ray Disc playback.

Grrr, I'm sure they're doing this just to **** me off.

I'll see if I cam track down some older drivers.

maddness · 29 Jun 2008 at 12:45

Jokester said:
On the current release of Catalysts and PowerDVD 7.3 Ultra (need it for HD-DVD support). The demo version of Windvd doesn't support Blu-ray playback and looking at the cost of it anyway, I'll be cheaper buying a Nvidia card

ha ha, im pretty certain power dvd 8 can be easily modded to run blu-ray and hd dvd, although ive never tried it, power dvd 7.3 ultra is easy to use

just out of interest which blu-ray drive are you using?

i bought the lg hd/blu-ray combo drive myself

Jokester · 29 Jun 2008 at 12:48

<maddness> said:
i bought the lg hd/blu-ray combo drive myself

That's the one I've got, everything was working fine before with the exception of an Nvidia GPU, but I've put a new PC together for playing music/DVDs and office type stuff so was just going to bung a cheap card in it.

MR.B · 29 Jun 2008 at 13:08

It's not the software.

It's the GPU, the 3000 series will not upscale 1080p Blu-Ray/HD-DVD to 2560x1600.
You can try all the software and drivers you want, but it's not going to happen.

The 4800 series will do this though, with there UVD2. They also support picture in picture (a Blu-Ray 2.0 spec). Something Nvidia have had since 9xxx series.

But a 8000 series will upscale to 2560x1600, atleast a 8800GT and higher anyway, dont know about the lower end ones.

Jokester · 29 Jun 2008 at 13:12

According to Nvidia, the 8500/8600GT is on a par with the 8800GT (which is better than the 8800GTX/Ultra), so might just sling in a passive 8500GT and see how that goes.

maddness · 1 Jul 2008 at 09:46

do you guys get black borders above and below the image in power dvd using blu-ray films? cant seem to get rid of them even by "stretch to fit to screen" am unable to zoom as they are highlighted out in power dvd 7.3 ultra, soo irritating

it stretches fine in all hd-dvds but not any blu-rays

malachi · 1 Jul 2008 at 10:33

I have a similar problem with my Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H 780G. I’ve connected the onboard ATI Radeon HD 3200 through HDMI to my 27” HDTV, set the res to 1920x1080 but I can’t get it to go full screen, on the normal desktop or playing movies. I’ve tried installing the latest drivers, checked the settings and its not going full screen. Does anyone know what the problem could be?