Black Box Where DVD Movie Should Be

[J.Clarke]

On 22 Nov 2003 13:06:35 -0800

I have a Radeon 9000 (TS64MVDR90) that has DVI-out (connected to an
HDTV), VGA-out (connected to a monitor), and svideo (not connected).
When I play a DVD in an overlay or full screen, I see it fine on the
monitor, but it's a black box on the HDTV. The HDTV otherwise shows
the the desktop (1360x720) just fine.

What's the deal with DVD movies out of the DVI connection?

You have to either enable theater mode in the overlay tab or set the DVI
as the primary display.

 

[Dale]

I have a Radeon 9000 (TS64MVDR90) that has DVI-out (connected to an
HDTV), VGA-out (connected to a monitor), and svideo (not connected).
When I play a DVD in an overlay or full screen, I see it fine on the
monitor, but it's a black box on the HDTV. The HDTV otherwise shows
the the desktop (1360x720) just fine.

What's the deal with DVD movies out of the DVI connection?

--Dale--

 

[Robert Pendell]

Umm.... yea. That would be the drivers preventing you from viewing a dvd on
a tv. This is not restricted to ATI cards either. My brand new Nvidia
TI4600 card does the same thing. Sad to say, there is no real way around
that for ATI users. None that I am aware of anyway. You could either
switch to using a Radeon 8500 (not LE) which did not have this quirk for
some reason ( even on macrovision encoded dvds ) or figure out how to work
around it. It would probably be a setting dealing with overlays. For
example on my Nvidia card, I had to set Full Screen Overlay to Auto-select
and anytime I play video in a player using overlay, I get the same video
Full Screen on my TV set. This is going through the S-Video too.

Hope this information is useful.

 

[Robert Pendell]

On 22 Nov 2003 13:06:35 -0800


You have to either enable theater mode in the overlay tab or set the DVI
as the primary display.

Yea Dale. That would be the one. The Theater Mode part I mean. That is
equal to what I suggested in my other post.

 

[Dale]

On 22 Nov 2003 13:06:35 -0800
(e-mail address removed) (Dale) wrote:
(snip)

You have to either enable theater mode in the overlay tab or set the DVI
as the primary display.

Primary display is the ticket - Thanks!. Theater mode looks like it
always goes full screen on one monitor, which isn't what I'm looking
for since I run the desktop on both 'monitors'. Now that I know that
I can get the video whereever I want by changing which display is
primary, I'm in good shape.

--Dale--

 

[Ben Pope]

Primary display is the ticket - Thanks!. Theater mode looks like it
always goes full screen on one monitor, which isn't what I'm looking
for since I run the desktop on both 'monitors'.

It only goes full screen when you actually have an overlay going. Otherwise
you get the desktop (possibly scrollable window over the desktop).

Now that I know that
I can get the video whereever I want by changing which display is
primary, I'm in good shape.

You can have it on both simultaneously if you set the Clone Mode to "Same on
all"

Ben