Graphics HOW TO watch movies on a second display

ok here is my problem. i have Geforce4Ti4400 with VIVO and i havge my t v hooked as a clone and i want to watch my movies on them such as divix(my legal backups) but the thing is the divix player shows up on the tv but mot the movie its just a black screen. whats the deal yo

 

ok two things you say clone.. you mean that everything on one monitar is one the other right.. stop that.. do extend to the tv it'll work better if you can do it with a tv.

second after you do that open divx and more it to the tv monitar. then open and play the movie. i'v found that if you start the movie on the pc monitar then try to move it to the tv (after it starts playing) then that makes it crash for some reasion.

 

Either activate video overlay or whatever it's called, or turn off hardware accelereation in the file player.

 

This doesn't have any thing to do with DRM etc? DivX prevents you from playing to a Video Output (TV etc) because it is possilbe to plug a VCR etc in and record the program?

 

This may not be too helpful, but I remember having a similar problem with my Ti4200. I had a tv hooked as a secondary monitor, but when I was watching movies on that in fullscreen, the primary monitor would either go black, or would show the movie, instead of the secondary...

 

it's 'cuz overlay, most cards can't display overlay on <1 monitor

the only way I've found is if the display properties have a overlay tab, the may be a "theater mode" that'll do what you want

 

Yeah, same on my laptop, what an arse.

 

i cant figure out how to do it again

 

is this the same reason why screenshots of divx movies always screw up? I mean, when you copy/paste the shot and move it around, it ends up black except for where the copied image overlaps the divx player beneath. This happens regardless of whether you move the paint window (editing the screenshot) over the media player or whether you move the pasted screenshot within paint. (try it and see - by definition i can't post a piccy)

 

Try installing TVtool, and disable macrovision, it could be kicking in preventing the moive displaying. Grandparents PC did this, used tvtool and its fine now.....

 

I had the same problem and if i remember it was refresh rate that was the probkem. I had it set to 60hz but wouldnt display a movie. I changed it down to 800x600 @ 50hz and it was fine!

 

Get the latest forceware (56.64) drivers and enable fullscreen overlay on your secondary display