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[sraymond]

Yaobing, et.al.,

I'm getting an error when watching TV full-screen on the second display.  The screen is all black, with a yellow text error at the top:  "Due to limitations of your computer's display device, this video can only play back on one of your monitors.  Please place the video window completely onto that monitor".

Playing all other visualizations (invluding video) works just fine.


Scott-

Media Center Registered 9.0.150 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\

Microsoft Windows XP  Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
AMD Athlon 1673 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 523 MB, Free - 267 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920)
Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1145 (xpsp2.021108-1929)wnaspi32.dll: 4.71 (0002) , ASPI for Win32 (95/NT) DLL, Copyright © 1989-2002 Adaptec, Inc. / Aspi32.sys: 4.71 (0002)

Ripping /   Drive G:   Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
 Drive H:   Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
 Drive I:   Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
 Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: No /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 32767
 Eject after ripping: No /  Play sound after ripping: No  

Burning /  Drive I:          RW-241040          Addr: 2:1:0  Speed:24  MaxSpeed:24  Use MJ Engine:Yes
 Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: No
 Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None

[Yaobing]

Is the second display a TV set or a computer monitor?

This seems to be a genuine hardware limitation. It happens not only to TV program, but any video.

[RhinoBanga]

I got that error when my 2nd video card did not support video overlay.

[sraymond]

Yaobing:  The problem only manifested recently and it only applies to TV Tuner.  I can watch all other video sources just fine full-screen on my second display (TV).  I've got the ATI AIW 8500 DV.

Scott-

[Yaobing]

Scott,

Overlay is probably the reason for not being able to play TV on TV out.

I have the same video card as yours. Are you sure it used to work for you? I thought you used to use Theater mode instead of extended desktop. TV works in Theater mode.

[sraymond]

Well, my memory isn't what it used to be - so I don't actually remember if TV worked on the Second Display.  But, yes, it does work when cloning the desktop to the TV and using the overlay's theater mode.

Yaobing:  Can you please answer a nagging question I've had for a while:  Why do I sometimes get the Hairstyle to display on the TV using clone/overlay/theater-mode, but not all the time?  Usually it works the first time I go to full-screen and hairstyle.  I then select a video to play and the Hairstyle goes away and the video is full-screen on both the monitor and the TV.  But going back to hairstyle leaves the TV playing the video full-screen while the monitor correctly shows the hairstyle.

This is actually quite a big deal for me, as I was never happy with sending the full-screen to the second display.  I would much rather keep using the clone/overlay/theater-mode method - and then I wouldn't care that I can't see the TV on the TV when displaying the full-screen on the second monitor (TV).

Did that make sense?

Scott-

[sraymond]

Matt:

Yaboing tells me that you'd be the guy that might be able to shed some light onto this...  any idea what's causing this nice behavior - and if it can be made to do this all the time?

Thanks!

Scott-