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Can only see 1/4 of video

Mar 24, 2006 3:55PM PST

I can only see the corner of my video picture in frame. This happend after adding a second monitor to watch movies on a tv screen. When I went back to watch video on my computer the problem was there. I can still watch video on my (second) tv screen no problem. It happens with all my players (Real player, Windows media player, MovieLink). My system is a Dell Inspiron 8100 with XP Home Sp2 What can I do to fix this?

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Confused...
Mar 25, 2006 12:40AM PST

Are you extending your desktop to your second monitor? or are you mirroring the first monitor?

Also, have you taken a look at the screen resolution?

What type of video card do you have?

Jeff

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More information
Mar 25, 2006 5:48AM PST

I guess extending my monitor is what I'm doing. Before when I used the video player it would play the hole picture on both my player and tv. Now with or without the tv being conected the player only has 1/4 of the picture showing. The card I have is a nVidia GeForce2 GO.

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Video players only
Mar 25, 2006 8:25AM PST

Does this problem occur only with video players? In another words, everything else appears properly but just video files.

Have you taken a look at the Display properties, Advanced settings in your Windows? I can't remember the actual settings for a nvidia graphics card on a laptop, but I believe there are some tweaks you can adjust in there like overlay.

But it is still strange...
Jeff

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Fixed
Mar 29, 2006 9:25AM PST

Right click desktop, properties, settings, advanced, Nvidia Geforce2 Go tab, overlay control from in to out and my problem was solved.
Thanks

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When you set up the video card to display video on a
Mar 25, 2006 12:04PM PST

second monitor, or TV, it will change what is seen on the computer's monitor. The reason is that the video must be altered to make it a 'standard' signal. My ATI 9600 does this also. It resumes normal operation when the second monitor is cancelled.

You may need a second video card to avoid this problem.