Need help with TV/out

[treydawg]

Alright, I got the computer hooked up to the TV and everything works. The problem is when I try to play a movie it won't show the video, just a black screen where the video is being played. How do I fix this? I tried playing the movie in Kazaa and WMP9. The whole desktop is fine just where it plays the video does not show up on the TV and it does on the computer. I am running XP Pro and an Abit Geforce TI4200.

 

[rainypickles]

it might have to do with overlays. right click video, options, performance, advanced and turn off overlays.

 

[treydawg]

Where am I right clicking on video?

 

[Mingon]

try swapping the primary and secondary monitors over, video overlay sometimes doesnt work on both cards on certain nview drivers.

 

[treydawg]

now that worked, won't show up on my computer. that's alright though. but when i go to full screen on the video player it gets blurry like it isn't sized correctly.

 

[Mingon]

Try a couple of different drivers, as the Nview software was updated the video overlay worked in some but not others on 2 monitors. I think the earlier versions allowed both screen to display video.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

It has to do with double-displays and Macrovision. Use the TV as your primary or only display and it should work fine.

Edit - Ok, you're doing that. Good. Blurry video, well, depends on the source. If you're playing a DVD, you should be OK. If it's a 320x240 clip from E3 done by a shaky HandyCam, you're SOL. 😛

- M4H

 

[treydawg]

The video is fine but it doesn't format correctly on the TV for some reason.

 

[ChoppedBroccoli]

I had the same problems using my GeForce4 ti4400 with the 43.45 drivers. My old drivers had perfect TV-out quality...with the 43.45 drivers, the picture was really messed up....it was low quality and there was 'lines' going horizontally across the screen that 'broke up' the picture...

Im trying the new 44.03 drivers now...hopefully they'll be better.

 

[roncarter]

tryin turning off or down hardware acceleration in windows media player.