Tv out with NVidia

[magza]

I have played movies (divx, SVCD files) with PowerDVD and DivX player for months without any problem. I could watch it on both my PC monitor and the TV using S-Video out on my NVidia Geforce 4 MX 420 card.

But today I cannot see the movie on my TV, the PowerDVD (and DivX) window is black when it's displayed on my TV. Everything else is displayed properly on the TV and I on the PC monitor everything is okey, including the movie window.

I am using the latest drivers from NVidia and an update Windows XP Prof but I have no idea why I suddenly got this problem on my TV. Any ideas?

[JohnE.]

Welcome to TechIMO

I get the same problem occasionally... try this: on the Advanced button of Display Settings go to the Video Card tab, then to Overlay Controls and make sure TV is selected in the Full Screen Device box.

JohnE.

[magza]

I don't see the Overlay Controls but everything looks fine in the Advanced settings, using Clone and I can see both the monitor and the TV there. I have tried a lot of things, e.g. changing resolution, number of colours, rebooting etc. without success.

But just now I tried to reduce Hardware acceleration in the Troubleshoot tab to "Disable all DirectDraw and Direct3d accelerations...". When I do this PowerDVD and Divx no longer works on the PC either but Windows Media Player now works on both PC and TV. Higher acceleration results in the same problem on the TV with Windows Media Player as with PowerDVD.

[cruiserlck]

I would give un-installing and re-installing the graphics card a try. I had a similar problem and done just that and it fixed it. It might be worth a try , then again yours could be a totaly different problem than what mine was. Try it anyways , it could help. :-)

[firewolf]

I just recently bought a new computer and have a Geforce4 Titanium 4800se and I had the same problem, which I later found out wasn't a problem....

Which you may have done this, you took off the "Clone" setting.

I have taken some screenshots to show you how I fixed mine... if it doesn't help, check the manual that should have come with your vid card. Check in TroubleShooting and it has some directions there.




If you don't have the same Display Properties as me, because I checked the Manual and the directions were different from the screenshots you see above, then go Display Properties>TwinView

hope this helps,
-FireWolf

[magza]

It is set to clone and I have also tried to turn it off and on again but it doesn't help. I will try to uninstall the drivers and install it again and see if that helps. Will try that later today and let you know if it helps, thanks.

[magza]

Have been reinstalling the drivers several times and finally it is working with old drivers. I am now using version 2.8.4.1 and it works. (Hope it will continue to do so).

Haven't been able to get it to work with newer drivers even though it has worked earlier. Strange...

[Peter M]

For the 3293847234th time: Video overlays cannot be cloned.
So either you set your DVD viewing application to use software rendering rather than video overlay hardware (which eats CPU cycles), or you use a graphics card that offers a special mode for viewing movies fullscreen on the TV-out (Matrox "DVD MAX", ATi "Theater Mode", dunno whether NVidia cards can do that).