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Title: HDMI video signal Triggering "Game Mode" in MC29
Post by: Ramdan on June 19, 2022, 07:05:19 am

Hello,

I noticed MC29 enabling Game Mode on my TV when playing video. Thought this might be a mistake as the playback is not right when Game Mode is enabled so would like to see if this can be fixed. I am on Windows 10 64bit. I used MC20 before and didn't see this happen on that version.

Thanks!

My Setup is:
Panasonic VT60
Pioneer SC-LX87 amp (use USB audio)
Nvidia GTX970 4GB Graphics card (HDMi direct to TV)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4570 CPU @ 3.20GHz

Title: Re: HDMI video signal Triggering "Game Mode" in MC29
Post by: JimH on June 19, 2022, 09:11:14 am

I don't think MC does that.

Title: Re: HDMI video signal Triggering "Game Mode" in MC29
Post by: Ramdan on July 06, 2022, 04:43:33 pm

I've noticed MC20, MPC Classic being ok & VLC/MC29 when running a video and going full screen the TV for some reason enables Game Mode. I don't know if its a misinterpretation of the TV possibly but because it is ok in some players there must be some change that it has picked up on.

Will try to see if I can figure it out as its not possible to get accurate playback if I don't find find out what is causing the TV interpret the incoming signal that way.

Title: Re: HDMI video signal Triggering "Game Mode" in MC29
Post by: Hendrik on July 06, 2022, 04:51:24 pm

Its typically the graphics driver trying to "guess" the right mode.

For NVIDIA you can override it in the NVIDIA control panel, it should be under Display -> Adjust desktop color settings -> Content type reported to the display.

Title: Re: HDMI video signal Triggering "Game Mode" in MC29
Post by: voodoo5_6k on July 07, 2022, 05:20:56 am

I also had seen this issue a lot, but only with JRiver. Other software I had back then (e.g. PowerDVD, MPC-BE) never triggered that. Overriding this in the nVidia control panel wouldn't survive a reboot or relaunch of JRiver. The only thing that helped me was to turn off the content type recognition in the TV.

Title: Re: HDMI video signal Triggering "Game Mode" in MC29
Post by: Hendrik on July 07, 2022, 06:07:57 am

The NVIDIA setting is permanent.

Title: Re: HDMI video signal Triggering "Game Mode" in MC29
Post by: voodoo5_6k on July 07, 2022, 09:03:12 am

It would've been nice if it were, and I won't dispute that it might be for most, but unfortunately it wasn't on my end. Even setting it with an admin account didn't survive a reboot. Once JRiver ran, it was reset. And if it's the same for the OP, then he could look into disabling it on the TV side. Then, it won't matter anymore.