TV tuner software only plays on primary monitor and not secondary

[zylander]

I have a Theater 550 Pro which plays through CyberLinks Power Cinema. When I watch TV or recorded shows through Power Cinema, it will only play on my primary monitor. When I drag the window to the secondary monitor the video cuts out. The sound still plays, but I just see a blank screen. When I drag it back to the primary monitor the video comes back. When I first installed the card and the software about 5 months ago it would play fine on both monitors. After a while it started doing this and I have no idea why. I havent made any hardware changes or software changes that should impact Power Cinema or my card. Anyone have this same software or know what could be wrong?


Also, are there other TV tuner programs I can use with my 550 Pro? I hate CyberLink Power Cinema. The interface is slow and laggy and it uses a lot of memory. What are some other TV tuner programs (preferably free) that will let me watch tv? I dont want anything fancy, just a simple program that can view and record TV.

 

[OPaul]

Your best bet is GBPVR. I have the 550 Pro card from ATI also and it's what I use. It supports dual-monitors (it can be set to even start on the secondary monitor) and is free.

http://www.gbpvr.com/

 

[IBuyUFO]

I think you need to turn off the video overlay through video/display properties

 

[Peter]

Yet again a symptom of the usual graphics cards having only one video overlay surface. It can be on either screen but not both.

Most drivers are intelligent enough to move this feature to the screen that needs it at the moment - and this might be why you lost it. Check your driver properties for things like "Assign Overlay to Screen", and put that back to "Auto".

Disabling use of the overlay in the viewer application will "fix" the problem, at the expense of much bigger CPU load, and loss of the graphics card's video scaling and filtering trickery. This is a solution, but it's the worst one.