Video only plays on one screen

[potissimus]

Hello there. I have a dual monitor setup and am trying to get the video to play across both screens. However, the video will only play on one. My other monitor just displays black. The one that it plays correctly on is determined by how much of the video window is on that monitor. 51% or more and the video plays on that screen and the other part is black.

It is also the same with every player I've tried (PowerDVD, BSplayer, VLC, Windows Media Player, etc...) as well as with every media type I've tried. My setup is as follows:

Monitor 1: Sony Trinitron Multiscan 100ES (on VGA port)
Monitor 2: Viewsonic 17GA (using DVI to VGA connector)
Graphics Card: MSI GeForce4 4400 (128MB)
Drivers: Forceware 61.77
OS: Windows XP

Any ideas on what the problem is and how to correct it?

 

[potissimus]

Any ideas at all? Surely I'm not the only one with this problem (at least, I hope I'm not 😉)

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Overlay problems. Thank Macrovision for that - since you're playing video on more than one screen at once, you must be An Evil Movie Pirate. :roll:

Disable the overlay in your player of choice and try again. The nView "Expanded Desktop" might also work - IIRC, they fixed it up in the latest iteration.

- M4H

 

[potissimus]

lol. I'm not sure how this problem somehow makes me "an evil movie pirate".

My problem is the same for store bought dvds, movie trailers, streaming video, anything.

That being said, how do I go about disabling the overlay. I've looked through a few of my players and don't see this option. BSPlayer's webstie says something about using "Force RGB mode", but I don't see it anywhere.

EDIT:
I found it. Thank you for your help. Unfortunately, it did not fix the problem. I'll keep looking. Thanks for the idea in the meantime, however