Image Retention on Windows media centre

Buffman · 29 Mar 2008 at 14:37

Whenever clips move from one scene to another my media player seems to retain an outline of the last seen image, is this a common problem and is there a way to fix it?

Vertigo · 29 Mar 2008 at 16:10

You sure it's Media Centre and not the display? What is this on, a plasma?

Buffman · 29 Mar 2008 at 21:22

I'm pretty sure it's media centre as I've yet to notice it on any other media. I'm using this on my 20" Samsung Pebble.

badbob · 29 Mar 2008 at 21:27

Do you have any noise reduction enabled in post processing?

Antar Bolaeisk · 29 Mar 2008 at 23:34

It's got to do with hardware acceleration, my x1950 has the same problem when I use Media Center, but it never really bugged me as I sit so far away I don't notice it too much.

If you use a different DVD player and disable hardware acceleration does it still happen?

Buffman · 30 Mar 2008 at 18:30

badbob said:
Do you have any noise reduction enabled in post processing?

Not sure, how do I check?

Antar Bolaeisk said:
It's got to do with hardware acceleration, my x1950 has the same problem when I use Media Center, but it never really bugged me as I sit so far away I don't notice it too much.

If you use a different DVD player and disable hardware acceleration does it still happen?

I don't have another dvd player and how do I disable hardware acceleration?

Buffman · 1 Apr 2008 at 19:46

The Craig said:
I don't have another dvd player and how do I disable hardware acceleration?

Anyone have any ideas how to do this?

Antar Bolaeisk · 2 Apr 2008 at 00:56

I haven't seen a way to do it specifically for media center but if you go to display settings (Right click on desktop) -> Settings -> Advanced -> Troubleshoot and drag the slider to the left it will stop it but unfortunately everything else suffers as a result of this.

Try using VLC media Player, that's what I use when I'm near my screen and the after-image annoys me.

Buffman · 4 Apr 2008 at 16:48

Antar Bolaeisk said:
I haven't seen a way to do it specifically for media center but if you go to display settings (Right click on desktop) -> Settings -> Advanced -> Troubleshoot and drag the slider to the left it will stop it but unfortunately everything else suffers as a result of this.

Try using VLC media Player, that's what I use when I'm near my screen and the after-image annoys me.

Apparently my current driver doesn't allow me to change hardware acceleration, and I do use VLC already to watch the odd video I download it's just I use media centre to watch digital tv (a lot more often than videos too)