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****** off with ATI

Ever try playing with the video colour overlay settings in CCC?

I remember every time my nVidia drivers were updated it would set gamma to 0.00 so that all videos were black. ATis never given me a problem as bad as that. Just adjust saturation.

And are you sure its not just a bad quality movie download or is it a dvd you are watching?
 
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List your kit, and how you're connecting it. Are you using FFDSHOW to upscale video? Both my htpc and gaming rig have ATI and picture is great.

Have you also adjusted settings on the display? Set desktop to native, 32 bit colour?
 
i guess your using s-video on your card?

s-video to scart/composite is always poor quality. blured and not sharp... i use hdmi which is perfect quality...
 
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Oceans 13 is also not a good film to judge by. The colour processing they used made the film so damn warm and made everybody looks like they have really really really bad fake tans.

Post a screenshot up of a different film that has a great transfer.
 
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ojrules said:
unfortunately the cyberlink screenshot thing slightly shrinks down the image, which makes it seem better quality
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I used to use PowerDVD for playback but found I had similar problems with their codec. So in the end I did a fresh install of Windows and just put on VLC player and then the K-Lite Codec pack. I haven't fiddled with any of the codec settings but found the image quality to be much better. :)

Directshow Filter Manager is an app. that you run and shows what codecs/filters are installed, and which take priority. It also lets you alter the priority. The Microsoft Decoder Utility is a bit simpler but shows similar things.
 
whats the source for your video playback? is it the original dvd? or is it a divx/xvid encode? could be getting compression artifacts if it is.
 
badbob said:
erm why? VLC is stand alone to codecs, so why install K-Lite bloated codec pack which has multiple identical video/audio codecs?
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I didn't know that about VLC, that's why. Besides, if it's got identical one's then what's the problem. The codec pack I'm guessing also has a lot more as well to offer...? Still, my point being is that I found the codecs which PowerDVD used gave poor IQ on playback. So perhaps the OP should try a different combo/player. :)
 
when it comes to vid quality, the first you have to say, very simply is, what are you trying to watch. a overly compressed divx encode, won't look as good as a native res for screen x264 high def encoding thats 10 times the size.

some codec's give worse quality playback, mess with divx settings if you're using divx, use vlc as its free, mostly codec independant, almost anything you'd ever need works on vlc as standard. if connected via vga cable, assuming it wasn't a artifact issue or poor quality video in whatever way, then vga cables are highly susceptable to video interference. maybe try either a dvi cable, or routing the vga cable as best as you can to get as far away from other cables as possible.
 
powerdvd runs fine in vista for me on my 32" perfect quality via hdmi. if the OP is using the s-video out on his card thats where the problem is.. it'll always be poor quality via s-video
 
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hey.. im using a standard vga connector.. i'm afraid i'm rather ignorant on the codec side of things, i'm just playign it straight off a dvd...
 
is there much point messing around with the settings?... aka do you know any settigns that will deffinately improve the quality (im using a dvd)?....
 
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