Video Overlay on TV

[Poochie]

I was wondering if there was a way to use the default monitor (this being
the main screen)with the desktop extended on tv and the possibility to view
movies (ie divx) dragging the player windows to the tv without seeing it
flickering! In nVidia cards the overlay usually gets black doing this, with
my ATI 9600 Pro I can see the overlay but it's not hardware accelerated
(this seems to me, as it lags). Anyway I wanted to be able to use this
method to see some movies because I frequently use Media Player Classic,
which uses a video render related to dx7 and/or 9 that enables the subtitles
but doesn't let the Video Card know that there is an overlay which should be
copied and stretched on the TV... this happens also using nVidia cards...
any hint?

Poochie

 

[Ben Pope]

I was wondering if there was a way to use the default monitor (this being
the main screen)with the desktop extended on tv and the possibility to
view movies (ie divx) dragging the player windows to the tv without
seeing it flickering! In nVidia cards the overlay usually gets black
doing this, with my ATI 9600 Pro I can see the overlay but it's not
hardware accelerated (this seems to me, as it lags). Anyway I wanted to
be able to use this method to see some movies because I frequently use
Media Player Classic, which uses a video render related to dx7 and/or 9
that enables the subtitles but doesn't let the Video Card know that there
is an overlay which should be copied and stretched on the TV... this
happens also using nVidia cards... any hint?

Poochie

Not sure what you want to do.

I initially started with that setup (extended desktop) but gave up on that.
If you do not extend the desktop (since it looks crap on the TV anyway) and
then set the clone mode (in overlay) to theatre, then whenever you play a
video on the primary desktop, the entire overlay gets put onto the second
display (the tv) stretched to fit.

If you say that media player classic doesn't use overlays (which it does for
DivX at least) then that obviously won't work. Any example I might be able
to test for this?

If you want to use the extended desktop thing, then I'm not sure what you
mean by the flickering.

Ben

 

[Chimera]

Enable clone mode in the ATI control panel, done.

 

[Chimera]

Enable clone mode in the ATI control panel, done.

duh, I mean theatre mode

 

[Poochie]

duh, I mean theatre mode

I perfectly know the Theatre mode... I simply wanted another solution cuz I
frequently use an app which is incompatible with that method!

Try downloading Media Player Classic (www.gabest.org I think or go to
www.doom9.org 's download page), load it and go to
View\Options\Playback\Output\Video. Only setting it to System Default will
work under clone mode! All the others will or freeze (Old Video Renderer) or
show the video in an incompatible way (related to ATI's overlay capture).

Poochie

 

[Chimera]

I perfectly know the Theatre mode... I simply wanted another solution
cuz I frequently use an app which is incompatible with that method!

then it seems the problem is with the shitty programs you use.
Overlays only appear on the primary display, so try setting your primary
display to the TV

 

[Ben Pope]

then it seems the problem is with the shitty programs you use.
Overlays only appear on the primary display, so try setting your primary
display to the TV

Overlays depend on the clone mode... Can be only on primary, on secondary
zoomed and on both.

His player appears not to use overlays and he uses extended desktop... two
reasons why clone mode is irrelevent here.

Ben