Problem; cannot see 'videos' play on TV (yet they appear OK on the monitor) using "Clone" view... (fixed this once before, on another system, cannot figure it out now).

Problem; cannot see 'videos' play on TV (yet they appear OK on the
monitor) using "Clone" view... (fixed this once before, on another
system, cannot figure it out now).

Subject pretty much sais it all... when I play a video, I can see it
fine on my monitor, but, it appears as a black-window on my TV. I can
switch to TV+analog, and it'll appear on the TV, but then, it won't
appear on the PC. I do alot of viewing and editing and I often review my
work on the TV, instead of sitting at the PC for hrs at a time, so it's
kind of a pain having to continuously switch views. I had this same
problem on my son's PC, and fixed it once, (this was before I gave it to
him, so he doesn't use the TV-out feature), but I cannot seem to recall
what I did in the settings, to fix the problem. Any help would be
appreciated.

The card I'm using is a geforce FX 5200 w/256mb DDR.

Any ideas?


VIDiot
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I am having the same problem with a Predator MX 440 8X card being used
in a Dell PowerEdge 400sc, with Windows 2000.

The problem shows up one other way. If a do a screen capture with the
Print screen key, the saved screen has a black window where the video
should be.

Disabling DirectX with the "Display Setting Advanced Trouble
Shooting Hardware Acceleration" setting clears the problem, but of
course causes other problems.

Any suggestions?


On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 07:17:45 GMT, VIDiot wrote:

Problem; cannot see 'videos' play on TV (yet they appear OK on the
monitor) using "Clone" view... (fixed this once before, on another
system, cannot figure it out now).

Subject pretty much sais it all... when I play a video, I can see it
fine on my monitor, but, it appears as a black-window on my TV. I can
switch to TV+analog, and it'll appear on the TV, but then, it won't
appear on the PC. I do alot of viewing and editing and I often review my
work on the TV, instead of sitting at the PC for hrs at a time, so it's
kind of a pain having to continuously switch views. I had this same
problem on my son's PC, and fixed it once, (this was before I gave it to
him, so he doesn't use the TV-out feature), but I cannot seem to recall
what I did in the settings, to fix the problem. Any help would be
appreciated.

The card I'm using is a geforce FX 5200 w/256mb DDR.

Disable the use of Overlays in yer media player app. In WMP, 'tis under
tools/options/performance/advanced.


Frog Legs wrote:
I am having the same problem with a Predator MX 440 8X card being used
in a Dell PowerEdge 400sc, with Windows 2000.

The problem shows up one other way. If a do a screen capture with the
Print screen key, the saved screen has a black window where the video
should be.

Disabling DirectX with the "Display Setting Advanced Trouble
Shooting Hardware Acceleration" setting clears the problem, but of
course causes other problems.

Any suggestions?


On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 07:17:45 GMT, VIDiot wrote:


Problem; cannot see 'videos' play on TV (yet they appear OK on the
monitor) using "Clone" view... (fixed this once before, on another
system, cannot figure it out now).

Subject pretty much sais it all... when I play a video, I can see it
fine on my monitor, but, it appears as a black-window on my TV. I can
switch to TV+analog, and it'll appear on the TV, but then, it won't
appear on the PC. I do alot of viewing and editing and I often review my
work on the TV, instead of sitting at the PC for hrs at a time, so it's
kind of a pain having to continuously switch views. I had this same
problem on my son's PC, and fixed it once, (this was before I gave it to
him, so he doesn't use the TV-out feature), but I cannot seem to recall
what I did in the settings, to fix the problem. Any help would be
appreciated.

The card I'm using is a geforce FX 5200 w/256mb DDR.

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 21:13:32 GMT, Sharanga Dayananda
wrote:

Disable the use of Overlays in yer media player app. In WMP, 'tis under
tools/options/performance/advanced.

Thanx for the suggestion, I tried the two other video-output options in
MPC, and still, no difference. (I do not like, WMP, myself).


VIDiot
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VIDiot wrote:
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 21:13:32 GMT, Sharanga Dayananda
wrote:


Disable the use of Overlays in yer media player app. In WMP, 'tis under
tools/options/performance/advanced.


Thanx for the suggestion, I tried the two other video-output options in
MPC, and still, no difference. (I do not like, WMP, myself).


VIDiot
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Disable overlay and VMR (software rendering). Then it'll be software
rendering by default for all media players which use the Windows defaults.