All-in Wonder 9700Pro + TV out = slow TV?

[glugglug]

Whenever I move the beyondTV window onto the TV instead of the main display, it goes like 5fps. This makes no sense to me, because if anything it should go faster since it is playing in a lower resolution area (smooth in 1920x1440 on main screen). What is going wrong here?

 

[rbV5]

Lack of video acceleration on the secondary screen I'll bet. If you make it the primary display, do you get the same result?

Maybe you can switch the rendering mode from overlay to VMR (I'm not familiar with BTV)

 

[glugglug]

I tired both overlay and direct3D, both are slow. In fact, when the video is playing on the TV, EVERYTHING displays slow, even the mouse movement is jerky.

With overlay, it requires the BTV window to be completely on one screen, giving an error message that the display hardware can't play the videos spanning across both. With Direct3D I can drag the window from one screen to the other with no error message while it is split across both.

Is VMR the same as the direct3D option?

For the MPEG-2 renderer option I currently have the ATI one selected, figuring this would take advantage of the hardware acceleration while the default BTV one might not. Maybe I should try the other renderers? Don't think this matters though when even viewing live TV is slow, not just playing back recordings.

 

[rbV5]

Does everything play alright on the Primary display? Did you try making the TV the primary display.
I think the D3D option may be VMR, since VMR uses the 3d pipeline to render. I see that BTV has a trial, so maybe I'll get a chance to install it and see if its a bug in BTV (I'm working this week, so I have very little time until the middle of next week unfortunately).

How are you connected to your TV? What drivers are you using? What display settings? Is it just live TV that exhibits this issue? Have you tried any other software? What is your CPU utilization while playing video on the secondary screen?