Personal Cinema White Box problem but NOT Macrovision
About 3 times per hour a white box appears in captured video for 5 seconds. It is full width and half height placed centrally in the frame.
Internet research indcates it might be a driver/Macrovision problem but WDM drivers V108 do not fix it and it appears randomly on non-Macrovision TV input and in all my video capture programs.
I've tried clean installs of XP Home/Professional/SP1/SP2 VGA drivers from 4533 to 6681 and WDM drivers from 108 to 223 and I've not been able to fix it. It happens in all capture programs including WinDVR V1 & 3, Ulead DVD Movie Factory.
I can't produce the box "at will" but worst offenders are TV cable box on a digital channel and VCR (home movies) both on the composite input.
I don't believe it is directly macrovision as I CAN capture a DVD (played back through the composite video in) which won't copy onto a VCR.
The symptoms seem so like the reported macrovision problems and it's driving me up the wall that WDM V108 does NOT fix the problem.
Does anybody else have the white box with the WDM108 drivers?
Thanks
Card Bios: 4.34.20.19.01
MikeF,
I haven't tried WDM 1.08 because of the code 10 error.
I didn't know if you were aware of this but this same package is marketed by MSI, EVGA and PNY (there may be others as well). My post on the NVidia board has been ignored for days now. I'm in dialogue with a guy from PNY but he has no constructive ideas on how to solve the problem. People have posted our exact problem on the EVGA board as well. There have been no responses. PNY doesn't even have a forum.
The Nvidia Forceware multimedia program that I have to schedule and capture with is beta at best. Way too many bugs and absolutely no update or support in sight. On occasion I build PC's for friends and family and I'm going to include the NVidia 5700 as a graphics card on the next one I build. I'll make no mention of it's other alleged capilbilities. It is an OK graphics card.
I don't fault MSI at all in this, they have to trust that the products coming from NVidia do indeed work as advertised. In this case it doesn't. There are just too many obstacles to overcome at this pace, so I decided to move on to a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR for capturing. My Dell GX270 has onboard video that will be fine for this PC's purpose which is video work only.
The one thing that I've learned is to stay away from NVidia products, there are other vendors who make products that have been fully tested and hopefully supported well. I don't feel much like being part of NVidia's beta program any longer.
To Glenn: Thank you sir for your responses. Of the various avenues that I've pursued you were the ONLY one who provided good suggestions and feedback. Even though it didn't work out (yet) thanks for trying.
I'll be checking back in from time to time to see when and if this gets resolved.
Spectrum
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<HEAD><TITLE>Some thing</TITLE>
<BODY>
<CENTER>
<h:panelGroup id="group">
<h:panelGrid columns="1" id="grid">
<t:dataTable id="messagedata"
var="message"
value="#{listMessage.messages}"
rows="10">
<t:column>
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="Time Transferred" />
</f:facet>
<h:outputText value="#{message.timeTransferred}" />
</t:column>
<t:column>
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="Purpose" />
</f:facet>
<h:outputText value="#{message.actionPerformed}" />
</t:column>
</t:dataTable>
<t:dataScroller id="scrollnice"
for="messagedata"
fastStep="10"
pageCountVar="pageCount"
pageIndexVar="pageIndex"
paginator="true"
paginatorMaxPages="9"
paginatorActiveColumnStyle="font-weight:bold;">
<f:facet name="first" >
<t:graphicImage id="theproblem" url="images/arrow-first.gif" border="1" />
</f:facet>
</t:dataScroller>
</h:panelGrid>
</h:panelGroup>
</CENTER>
</BODY>
</HTML>
</f:view>and the error page:
exception
javax.servlet.ServletException: Client-id : theproblem is duplicated in the faces tree.
javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:109)
org.apache.myfaces.component.html.util.ExtensionsFilter.doFilter(ExtensionsFilter.java:112)
root cause
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Client-id : theproblem is duplicated in the faces tree.
org.apache.myfaces.application.jsp.JspStateManagerImpl.checkForDuplicateIds(JspStateManagerImpl.java:241)
org.apache.myfaces.application.jsp.JspStateManagerImpl.checkForDuplicateIds(JspStateManagerImpl.java:255)
org.apache.myfaces.application.jsp.JspStateManagerImpl.checkForDuplicateIds(JspStateManagerImpl.java:255)
org.apache.myfaces.application.jsp.JspStateManagerImpl.checkForDuplicateIds(JspStateManagerImpl.java:255)
org.apache.myfaces.application.jsp.JspStateManagerImpl.checkForDuplicateIds(JspStateManagerImpl.java:255)
org.apache.myfaces.application.jsp.JspStateManagerImpl.checkForDuplicateIds(JspStateManagerImpl.java:255)
org.apache.myfaces.application.jsp.JspStateManagerImpl.saveSerializedView(JspStateManagerImpl.java:204)
org.apache.myfaces.taglib.core.ViewTag.doEndTag(ViewTag.java:122)
org.apache.jsp.messages_jsp._jspx_meth_f_view_0(org.apache.jsp.messages_jsp:132)
org.apache.jsp.messages_jsp._jspService(org.apache.jsp.messages_jsp:81)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:97)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:322)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:291)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:241)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
org.apache.myfaces.context.servlet.ServletExternalContextImpl.dispatch(ServletExternalContextImpl.java:415)
org.apache.myfaces.application.jsp.JspViewHandlerImpl.renderView(JspViewHandlerImpl.java:234)
org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:300)
javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:95)
org.apache.myfaces.component.html.util.ExtensionsFilter.doFilter(ExtensionsFilter.java:112)Thanks in advance for any help.Emilio Corsetti wrote:
Ben,
That was the problem. The link is live now and you can see the poorly positioned spry menu in all its glory.
Thanks,
Emilio
http://www.emiliocorsetti.com/publish/two_column.html
You don't say what you want to change.
If I were styling your menu I would have it vertically centered in the grey background. By adding the red coloured rule found in layout.css
#menu (line 61)
background-image: url("../Images/Layout/nav_bg.jpg");
background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-position: left top;
width: 960px;
height: 40px;
padding-top: 10px; // or whatever suits
I would also like to have the menu items spread evenly across the page by applying the style rule found in SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
position: relative;
cursor: pointer;
width: 20%; // 5 items X 20% = 100%
float: left;
You may have to fiddle a bit more after this to get it exactly the way you want. Just start a new topic because this one has already been answered.
Happy Sprying.
Ben -
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