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ryandwirth@gmail.com
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Wed Nov 09, 2005 12:12 am Post subject:
Tv-out blank for movies when cloning. |
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Good day all,
I have a 6600GT AGP8x on an Asus A8V running an AMD 3500, and HDTV out
to a sweet Sony big screen. When I play movies to the cloned desktop,
the movie is blacked out on the TV (although I can still see the
desktop). But it will work if I open another movie player. So I have
to open two movies everytime to watch one. Has anyone else had this
happen? This happened on my 5500 also.
Example: I open Windows media player and play one *.avi and pause it
..... then I have to open another one (like RealAudio) to play a movie
so that the *.avi outputs to my TV properly ... any ideas? This also
happens with mpegs, and DVD's ... although I just need to open up one
..avi to have another movie format work in the second player. I have
also tried a lot of other players (Divx, PowerDVD, etc.)
Thanks a lot group!
Ryan |
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vellu
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Wed Nov 09, 2005 12:42 am Post subject:
Re: Tv-out blank for movies when cloning. |
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ryandwirth@gmail.com kirjoitti:
| Quote: | Good day all,
I have a 6600GT AGP8x on an Asus A8V running an AMD 3500, and HDTV out
to a sweet Sony big screen. When I play movies to the cloned desktop,
the movie is blacked out on the TV (although I can still see the
desktop). But it will work if I open another movie player. So I have
to open two movies everytime to watch one. Has anyone else had this
happen? This happened on my 5500 also.
Example: I open Windows media player and play one *.avi and pause it
.... then I have to open another one (like RealAudio) to play a movie
so that the *.avi outputs to my TV properly ... any ideas? This also
happens with mpegs, and DVD's ... although I just need to open up one
.avi to have another movie format work in the second player. I have
also tried a lot of other players (Divx, PowerDVD, etc.)
Thanks a lot group!
Ryan
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This happens because the first video window uses video overlay to view
the clip which is the most efficient way of viewing video (the image is
drawn directly to video card ram; that is, it is not part of the
desktop). It also means it will NOT show on the clone screen or "print
screen" image captures. But there can be only one video overlay in use
at a time, so when you open another video window, it is created "the old
fashioned" way as part of the desktop. That will then be part of the
clone image stream, and will show on the clone screen.
IIRC if you reduce graphic accelaration setting enough (in display
settings) video overlays are disabled and this will not happen. A better
way in my opion however is to use the option to view video fullscreen on
the secondary device. This can be set in NVidia driver settings. You
naturally won't see the desktop while a video is playing, but why would
you want to? When video is not playing the secondary device will work as
a regular clone device (or extended desktop, which ever is in use). |
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deimos
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Wed Nov 09, 2005 2:01 am Post subject:
Re: Tv-out blank for movies when cloning. |
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vellu wrote:
| Quote: | ryandwirth@gmail.com kirjoitti:
Good day all,
I have a 6600GT AGP8x on an Asus A8V running an AMD 3500, and HDTV out
to a sweet Sony big screen. When I play movies to the cloned desktop,
the movie is blacked out on the TV (although I can still see the
desktop). But it will work if I open another movie player. So I have
to open two movies everytime to watch one. Has anyone else had this
happen? This happened on my 5500 also.
Example: I open Windows media player and play one *.avi and pause it
.... then I have to open another one (like RealAudio) to play a movie
so that the *.avi outputs to my TV properly ... any ideas? This also
happens with mpegs, and DVD's ... although I just need to open up one
.avi to have another movie format work in the second player. I have
also tried a lot of other players (Divx, PowerDVD, etc.)
Thanks a lot group!
Ryan
This happens because the first video window uses video overlay to view
the clip which is the most efficient way of viewing video (the image is
drawn directly to video card ram; that is, it is not part of the
desktop). It also means it will NOT show on the clone screen or "print
screen" image captures. But there can be only one video overlay in use
at a time, so when you open another video window, it is created "the old
fashioned" way as part of the desktop. That will then be part of the
clone image stream, and will show on the clone screen.
IIRC if you reduce graphic accelaration setting enough (in display
settings) video overlays are disabled and this will not happen. A better
way in my opion however is to use the option to view video fullscreen on
the secondary device. This can be set in NVidia driver settings. You
naturally won't see the desktop while a video is playing, but why would
you want to? When video is not playing the secondary device will work as
a regular clone device (or extended desktop, which ever is in use).
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I think you can use VMR display modes as well. These are a DirectX
style overlay and I think you can have more than one. I'm not sure if
PowerDVD can do it, but Media Player Classic can, and I know there are a
couple different options under VideoLAN.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/ |
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ryandwirth@gmail.com
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Wed Nov 09, 2005 8:26 am Post subject:
Re: Tv-out blank for movies when cloning. |
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That worked perfect, thanks a million Vellu.
Ryan
<------ perfect fix below ----->
vellu wrote:
| Quote: | This happens because the first video window uses video overlay to view
the clip which is the most efficient way of viewing video (the image is
drawn directly to video card ram; that is, it is not part of the
desktop). It also means it will NOT show on the clone screen or "print
screen" image captures. But there can be only one video overlay in use
at a time, so when you open another video window, it is created "the old
fashioned" way as part of the desktop. That will then be part of the
clone image stream, and will show on the clone screen.
IIRC if you reduce graphic accelaration setting enough (in display
settings) video overlays are disabled and this will not happen. A better
way in my opion however is to use the option to view video fullscreen on
the secondary device. This can be set in NVidia driver settings. You
naturally won't see the desktop while a video is playing, but why would
you want to? When video is not playing the secondary device will work as
a regular clone device (or extended desktop, which ever is in use). |
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