hardlock 1 Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 Hello Everyone.I'm very new to Emby and still in the process of setting everything up. So far I'm impressed etc.. However I have come across a rather large fault. I'm from the UK, and many of you will know that PAL DVD have slightly better resolution than NTSC versions. Eg we don't use 480p, but 576i.I'm currently in the process of Ripping my DVD collection and when I play it through Emby, it's not playing full screen. but in a kind of letterbox mode. Any other player displays the file correctly. Eg VLC, Media players etc...Even when I playback though my phone or tablet it is correctly scaled. Just not on the Theater Desktop Program. I have tried the windows 10 theatre App, and this scales correctly, but this has issues with passing AC3 and DTS sound, and converts everything back to stereo with a 15 second delay. So onto a no winner there either.This is what I am seeing on a 1080p Monitor. Upsetting isnt it. Sad face Everything in the video settings is set to default.My Graphics card is an AMD Radeon r9 290.Processor is i7 930 @4.2 Ghz12GB RamAnd all the usual storage and additions.Using DVI to the monitor. Please help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37248 Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 Hi, in video settings, try setting the video renderer to EVR or EVR+ and see if either makes a difference. thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardlock 1 Posted December 11, 2016 Author Share Posted December 11, 2016 Using EVR+ scales the image up, however it's doing a very basic/raw upscale with no type of Anti-aliasing. So the image has loads of horrid pixels everywhere. It actually looks like it's been scaled down, then x4 to make it 1080p. Look at the edge of his hand.I don't think the JPEG compression has really helped show the issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37248 Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 have you tried the madvr renderer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardlock 1 Posted December 11, 2016 Author Share Posted December 11, 2016 Just get a black screen and the program crashes if I use madvr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 Take a look through this post to help with MadVR configuration. If this doesn't help you, please post your ET settings, so we can help you better. https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/30199-et-setup-guide-with-madvr-and-bitstreaming-hd-audio/page-5&do=findComment&comment=353953 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 Can I ask why you use a DVI connection. HDMI would be better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardlock 1 Posted December 12, 2016 Author Share Posted December 12, 2016 My monitor has two HDMI ports. I use a DVI to HDMI cable. The digital video signal from DVI and HDMI are identical, and you can transmit audio over DVI to HDMI. My HDMI cable is duplicated to my Elgato Capture card. This is used for gameplay recording in games without a CPU overhead. Recorded on a separate laptop, then sent back to the HDD on the computer ready for editing later. It's also very good for capturing footage from Canon DSLR cameras at a higher bitrate than they can record at.I think I have narrowed it down to the AMD Crimson drivers. I have just loaded the program on an intel and another Nvidia based system, and it is working correctly. So there is an incompatibility issues with AMD drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 Just as long as you aren't using 4k. It would be helpful if you resolve your issue and let us know. Others may have the same issue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardlock 1 Posted December 20, 2016 Author Share Posted December 20, 2016 Ok I have done various testing and I cannot get this to work on any AMD graphics based computer in my household. Intel ones are fine. But as soon as you try to watch any content that is lower than 1080p, it scales with pixels everywhere. And MADVR doesnt work at all.This is confirmed not to work on AMD Radeon r9 290xAnd AMD APU with inbuilt AMD Radeon Cores. A10I have also trawled through the Emby forums and google, and I found other users that had the same issue. With older version of theatre. However the solution given in the post is no longer an option.https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/7586-videos-are-very-pixelated/Basically the XML file does not have this option.So I'm very stuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37248 Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 Hi @@hardlock, we are looking into it, thanks ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardlock 1 Posted December 23, 2016 Author Share Posted December 23, 2016 Update for you. I have managed to get correct scaling and playback with Madvr, after messing with some settings.I have to use DXVAcopy3back as the acceleration mode and then use Madvr. However after this I found that when I used full screen it would crash. After hunting around I found that some users had this issue with windows 10 anniversary too.If you open up the Madvr Settings, and go to the rendering tree, and general settings. Enable Direct3D 11 for presentation and Vsync. It all seems to work Nicely.However I have found it's uses a bit of GPU power and CPU. Alot more than normal, but nothing my computer cannot handle. I will test the lower spec APU later after Xmas.Seasonal Greetings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37248 Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 would you mind performing a quick test and seeing if the legacy app has the same scaling issue (without madvr): https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/29908-legacy-version/ thanks ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardlock 1 Posted December 31, 2016 Author Share Posted December 31, 2016 Identical Issues. EVR the video is in a letterbox. EVR+ the image is scaled but pixelated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37248 Posted January 1, 2017 Share Posted January 1, 2017 Please try this version with EVR and let me know if the scaling issue is resolved: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qfkyvfqj5l2ibe3/et.zip?dl=0 Just unzip it to any folder and test it out portable. thanks,. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardlock 1 Posted January 2, 2017 Author Share Posted January 2, 2017 As far as I can see, all working correctly on that version. What was causing the issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37248 Posted January 2, 2017 Share Posted January 2, 2017 It's just a little complicated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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