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Dual Monitor problem (2005FPW)

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khicon

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I've just received my 2 2005fpw today. I install and set it up but has a minor problem. When I try to play a movie, it play fine in the Monitor #1. But when I drag it to monitor #2 its blanked out on me. I use WINDVD player to play "Van Helsing". I have no idea to why it does that. Other players work fine with it.

I have: ATI AIW 9600xt.
 
i suspect you have a macrovision problem.

good luck with that - i had the same trouble with the tv-out on my gf2mx. I fixed it by using VERY old drivers, but you may not have the same option.
 
I've install the omega drives. I've try to install the new 5.3 cat last time and it didn't turn out so well...

Could that be the problem?
 
I'm not too up on ATI and macrovision, to be honest, but that's what it sounds like to me.

Do you have any video files that are definitely not macrovision protected? they may work.

 
Macrovision is a sort of copy-protection written into a video file (I'm not sure how it works exactly, but it tells the player not to allow certain functionality).

It's the same thing that stops you from copying the output from your dvd player using your vcr.

While it's designed to prevent illegal copying, it's also a major PITA.
 
IC.... Well I've try to play an mpeg file in WINDVD player and still no result. But when I play it in the other media players, it worked fine.

bjc112, I will take a pix of it 2morro as it is late right now and the lighting are bad. 🙂 But dual monitor is awsome. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: khicon
IC.... Well I've try to play an mpeg file in WINDVD player and still no result. But when I play it in the other media players, it worked fine.

bjc112, I will take a pix of it 2morro as it is late right now and the lighting are bad. 🙂 But dual monitor is awsome. 🙂
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You can't play hardware overlay video on anything but the "Primary" display. Someone asks about this every couple weeks in the Video forum, and it affects both ATI and NVIDIA cards.

Either use a player with full software decoding (I believe Windows Media Player has this option, and there may be a toggle for WinDVD), or switch it so the second monitor is the "Primary" display (this doesn't affect anything but video playback and maybe 3D-accelerated games).
 
i have dual display on 2001FP and with nvidia 6800 GTO, its sweet but the forceware software is kind of complicated, you have to fudge around it a bit and like other said the primary display is where you should play your videos

(although I did stretch the desktop to 3200x1200 once and played it like that maximized (not full screen). it was awesome!)
 
Today I've try to solve the problem but with no luck. As first I thought it was the driver, but then it wasn't. I've install the newest driver cat 5.3 but that's a no go. The thing that bugs me is that. My brother is doing a duali but his windvd player can play on both monitor. He have a fx5200 with DVI and Analog. So does that make a different?
 
You need to use VMR rendering instead of the Overlay if you want to display the video on your secondary screen.

For example: Enable High Quality mode in WMP10 (disabling overlay) and you can play the video on either display. WINDVD may have a similar mode for rendering, MPC does.
 
Originally posted by: Matthias99
Originally posted by: khicon
IC.... Well I've try to play an mpeg file in WINDVD player and still no result. But when I play it in the other media players, it worked fine.

bjc112, I will take a pix of it 2morro as it is late right now and the lighting are bad. 🙂 But dual monitor is awsome. 🙂
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You can't play hardware overlay video on anything but the "Primary" display. Someone asks about this every couple weeks in the Video forum, and it affects both ATI and NVIDIA cards.

Either use a player with full software decoding (I believe Windows Media Player has this option, and there may be a toggle for WinDVD), or switch it so the second monitor is the "Primary" display (this doesn't affect anything but video playback and maybe 3D-accelerated games).
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Agreed, this is nothing to do with Macrovision copy protection.
 
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