[thespecialist]

Don't know why you necessarily must come up with your own codec when it's already preinstalled and for free on 9½ of 10 PCs.

MSDTV isn't open source and I don't think there's any documentation available ? It's commercial & microsoft copyrighted I think ? Hence it won't play on anything else than windows.

Besides, it's not the codec here that's the problem. DXVA is just a wrapper that uses a decoder that is in your hardware. The problem is in the configuration of the whole process and 'interfacing' it with XBMC. So MSDTV wouldn't make any difference, because in both cases the codec has to be configured correctly, which exactly is the problem here (though it's possible that the configuration happens a level higher, *in* that msdtv dll, dunno about that, like said it's not open source AFAIK).

I fixed all issue's in DXVA-FFMPEG that occured in my movies (my patches are included in the isidrogar's build, one for MPEG2 and one for VC1). I don't have a sandybridge, so it's too complicated to debug/fix this for me, somebody with Sandybridge should do it ...Besides, like said, everything plays fine now on ATI and NVIDIA (and please remember/understand, nobody here gets paid, we're just doing things because we enjoy it, so you'll probably have to wait till somebody with an intel Sandybridge chipset gets so fed up with this bug, that he's going to want to fix it ).