GeForce FX 5600 TV-out

[tgxiii]

I have a Prolink Pixelview GeForce FX 5600 256 MB video card and I want to use it to play movie files from my computer onto my TV. I am getting picture on my TV with it; the applications show up with no problem. When I try to play AVIs or MPEGs, though, the movie won't show up on the TV. Does anyone know how to fix this problem? Thank you for your time.

[Cheetah_HWK]

Originally posted by tgxiii
I have a Prolink Pixelview GeForce FX 5600 256 MB video card and I want to use it to play movie files from my computer onto my TV. I am getting picture on my TV with it; the applications show up with no problem. When I try to play AVIs or MPEGs, though, the movie won't show up on the TV. Does anyone know how to fix this problem? Thank you for your time.

I Had The same problem once before, and can be fixed quite easily, just start your entire video player on the TV side as it acts like a second monitor (Drag it there), and then load up your video, it will play. This seems to me like some sort of copy protection in the video software.

[Peter M]

No it's not. It's just that video overlays can't be cloned on GeForce or Radeon cards because they have just one overlay engine.
Radeons at least have "Theater Mode" that sends the one overlay out the TV-out fullscreen - while still showing it on the active normal monitor. Look whether GeForce drivers offer something similar.

[slinky]

Originally posted by Peter M
No it's not. It's just that video overlays can't be cloned on GeForce or Radeon cards because they have just one overlay engine.

my GeForce 4 can handle that stuff easy, full screen or window.

[Peter M]

You can set the two screens to CLONE mode, and view the same video on both screens?

[tgxiii]

Originally posted by Peter M
You can set the two screens to CLONE mode, and view the same video on both screens?

Nope... this doesn't work. The video only appears on the primary display. What I'd like to do is be able to run a video on my TV full screen and still be able to work on applications on my CRT monitor, so Clone mode is out of the picture. Anyone know how I can do this?