Nvidia Dualview DVD playback problems

Fibretip

Alright, I have a quick question... it seemed specific enough to be a main thread rather than a computer topic thread... if i'm wrong, feel free to lock with my apologies!

I've spent most of yesterday messing around with my pc and tv trying to get my Geforce 7800GS to output Svideo to the tv in colour. I finally managed it yesterday, going great, full colour, any modes i like (clone, horizontal stretch etc etc) however when i tried to play a dvd movie on the TV screen, it just throws up a black box. Movies recorded from fraps will run fine, but anything DVD or ripped from a DVD is giving me this black screen (like when you print screen windows media player)

Any ideas what's wrong? I thought it might be something to do with video being an overlay that the TV can't deal with, but why would the fraps movies play okay in media player and vlan?

Silmaril

I think there are some options in the GeForce control panel that determine which screen it will play video on. I remember struggling with this myself when I hooked up my HiDef Telly.

I'm not at home at the mo, so I can't check where, but I'm pretty sure they're in there somewhere.

nestea_monster

In media player, go to the tools->options menu, and select the performance tab.

Turn acceleration off.

Does that help?

Locust76

Also another option would be to look into the "Full screen overlay" device. You can set Nvidia chips to display video in a window on the primary monitor, but blow it up fullscren on the secondary. It's actually probably the best way to do it.

You probably use the new nvidia control panel, so here's how to do it. Open the nvidia control panel and choose Video & Television > Modify full-screen video options > "Also show it full-screen on my: Autodetect/TV or whatever is there"