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[benn600]

Is this just my computer or do other people have this issue?  When I start playing a DVD, even if it doesn't jump to fullscreen, Vista immediately disables Aero Glass and goes to the plain, opaque theme.  When I close MC, it returns to Aero Glass.

[aksdb]

That's normal Vista-behavior. (depending on how the program render graphics)

[benn600]

It's a horrible normal Vista-behavior.

With two monitors, I see the change on my second monitor and it doesn't return until I restart MC.  It's annoying!

[aksdb]

It usually safes a lot of performance. The main purpose is of course for games. But an OS hardly can separate a game from a "normal" application. And believe me ... without disabling Aero in some cases, you would begin to hate Vista

[trott]

I'm not sure this is related to dvd playback. I get the prompt about vista disabling aero at seemingly random moments, even when nothing's playing. When I'm not even playing any video, surely vista shouldn't have any problems with aero?

[BartMan01]

This is NOT 'normal' Vista behaviour.  If I play a DVD with WMP11 or Media Player Classic, Aero remains.  If I play the DVD through MC12 I get a compatibility warning and Vista drops out of Aero.

[benn600]

Thank you!  That is exactly what I notice.  VLC plays full screen video without any issues, such as disabling aero.  Does this happen for others?  It is especially annoying with multiple monitors because then I work in a non-aero environment until I close MC!

I never see aero close unless I start playing video in MC.  My computers is fast enough to not randomly say, uhoo, I guess I'm not fast enough once you actually start using me!

[Matt]

Simply switch the video mixer MC uses for DVD playback.

VMR 9 and EVR will work with aero.  Some filters don't like these newer modes, so the MC default is to use overlay mixing.

Look in Options > Playback > DVD playback settings...

[trott]

Matt,

As I mentioned, I also get this error but when playing audio files. Could this be due to a visualisation? I haven't found settings to set the renderer for the visualisations...(i'm using clean'n tidy2)