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video card porblem

Jul 29, 2005 5:17AM PDT

i have a geforce 3 or 4 not sure, mx 440. It has video out. I have it set to clone, which shows the desktop on the tv fine. However when I open a video file with media player classic or bs player the video is a blank screen on the tv, but shows on the computer. It has to do with overlays but I dont know how to make the video appear. I know that you can make the video on tv full screen and then it will work. But i want exactly what i see on my computer.

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hm.... updated your drivers?
Jul 29, 2005 9:16AM PDT

Have you gone to Nvidia's site and updated your drivers? If you the lastest I think I can help you.
-Ibrahim

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(NT) Update your codecs
Jul 29, 2005 10:47AM PDT

Find a good all-in-one codec pack and update your codecs. I had the same problem.

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similar issue
Aug 3, 2005 1:14PM PDT

at my work we buy a lot of sony laptops that have built in ati video and when you hook up an external monitor or projector in clone mode there are three modes:

1. Image on laptop lcd only(video plays fine)
2. Image on external vga output only(video plays fine)
3. Image on laptop lcd and on external vga output(video only plays on laptop lcd)

this is with latest drivers, and i don't think it's a codec problem, otherwise the video wouldn't play at all. i suspect that the problem is with the implementation of the video chipset; either it's not designed to support motion video on two different devices simultaneously or it's just not setup to do so