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| 559993 | 2007-06-17 05:41:00 | I was helping somebody set up a projector to play a video today - the XP interface was up on the screen but as soon as you started playing a DVD the moving picture showed only on the computer screen - if you didn't play in full screen mode you could still see the DVD player controls on the big screen. A home made video would play - but nothing from the DVD would show up. I have never come across this one before - any ideas? |
johnd (85) | ||
| 559994 | 2007-06-17 05:43:00 | Windows media player? Turn off video acceleration. Other media player? Try a different media player. I presume you were running teh projector as a secondary monitor? |
Metla (12) | ||
| 559995 | 2007-06-17 05:46:00 | I use the basic windows media player to get full screen playback on my PC that has the TV hooked up as the secondary monitor. On my PC thats running the main home theatre I only have the projector, no seconday screen and it runs as it would just hooked upto a monitor. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 559996 | 2007-06-17 05:54:00 | Tried with Windows media player and another player installed (don't remember what it was called) - same thing - everything was on the projector screen except the moving picture. | johnd (85) | ||
| 559997 | 2007-06-17 05:59:00 | Windows Media Player Classic? Not the fugly piece of crap that comes up by default on XP. The classic media player will be buried in your program files, to make it full screen you need right click it and select fullscreen friom the drop down list. As mentioned above, In Windows Media Player 7 and above (which I presume you used, I presume this due to a complete lack of details) yoiu need to disable VIDEO ACCELERATION. But, I have already said that haven't I.... Lastlty, Make the projector the main display and yank the other one out (A bit hard on a laptop but...meh) |
Metla (12) | ||
| 559998 | 2007-06-17 06:32:00 | Modern graphic chips/cards (yes this also includes the intel ones!!) will usually have hardware acceleration available for decompressing DVD video (often called overlay mode). When a DVD is detected, most (if not all) media players will use this option to play DVD's, as this gives the smoothest playback. The problem is, that this usually only works on the primary display (if you have more than one display - in this case the projector is secondary). To get it to display on the projector using WMP you have to disable video acceleration (as metla said). If using the other player (which I suspect is dedicated DVD software like WinDVD or PowerDVD or equivalent, you may not be able to change the output mode. In this case you would have to play with the graphics card settings to see if you turn this hardware acceleration off, or you can make it so that the graohic card outputs to the projector only. |
Sherman (9181) | ||
| 559999 | 2007-06-17 06:34:00 | Thanks peoples! | johnd (85) | ||
| 560000 | 2007-06-17 12:25:00 | ALT + ENTER will also switch WMP into fullscreen mode. | beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 560001 | 2007-06-17 13:02:00 | Good post Sherman, right on the money I believe :) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 560002 | 2007-06-17 20:32:00 | As Metla said you should be able to make the projector output the primary display. (Without having to rip off the laptop screen!) In the display settings click on the screen with the number 2 in it and tick the box that says "Use this device as the primary monitor." Doing this will allow the DVD to play at full screen on the projector. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
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