Problem displaying Divx on a projector

[TWills]

I have my Projector set up in nView as a clone monitor, and it works fine for movies, games, etc. However, when I want to show a divx video on the big screen, it remains blank, even though I can see the clip on my monitor. I use Windows Media Player when I play divx, as I'm not a big fan of the Divx player. Do you have any ideas on what's going on here?

 

[Matthias99]

Play the video on the 'Primary' display, or use a software player rather than one that is hardware-accelerated. Overlay surfaces on displays other than the 'primary' one are blank.

Edit: Should work in Clone mode, though. Weird. Does it work with the DivX player, or VLC or something like that?

 

[TWills]

I'll be back home in a few hours, and I'll update on suggestions given.

 

[xtknight]

Won't work in clone mode either. You must use the video mixing renderer or theater mode.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Unless you need both displays at once, you could just set it to single display and switch between the two when you want to watch something.

 

[TWills]

Ok, I set my projector as the default monitor, and it showed up at the expense of the video on the monitor (kind of expected that). I guess I can live with that, but still...so much to be desired.

Strangely enough, when I used the divx player, the thing crashed, and continues to crash. Works fine with WMP though.

 

[Rubycon]

Sounds like an overlay issue.