G4MX440 Overlay for Winfast 2000XP

[DrFunkenstein]

I am using overlay mode on my MSI G4MX440 to display the signal from my Winfast 2000XP TV PVR onto my TV, and it works just fine if I want to watch the incoming analog cable signal. However, this is PVR, and I would like to use it as such, but whenever I use the PVR application to open a recorded TV program, the overlay just freezes on the last displayed cable signal. I cannot seem to get overlay mode to successfully display the output from the PVR app when it is playing back a recorded program.

I have tried nvidia drivers 41.09 and 43.85, and they both react the same. When I start the PVR, the current channel is displayed on the TV. When I choose to open a saved program, the display on the TV just freezes. If I then hit "Switch Screens" in the PVR, the TV screen goes black. Then I hit "Switch Screens" again, and the TV signal is displayed again. I cannot find any combination of options that allows the recorded program to be played via the PVR application in overlay mode. Of course WMP works, but then I cannot use the included remote to fast forward commercials.

I have been unable to find any successful remedies to this in numerous forums and searches....any ideas? registry tweaks? anything?

 

[DrFunkenstein]

In case anyone is interested, I have fixed my own problem. As it turns out, OVERLAY mode does not all the playing of recorded video files thru the PVR applicaton.

I have worked around the problem by simply specifing CLONE mode for my TV and disabling OVERLAY, and when launching the recorded program, I simply tell the app to display in FULL SCREEN, which works just fine. As a matter of fact, the picture on the TV looks 200% better than the full screen image on the computer monitor (that would be because the resolution on the TV is set to 800x600, and the monitor is 1024x768)...and I can still use the remote control to fast forward thru those paid advertising spots.