Author Topic: Problem watching DVD\'s... (Read 817 times)

« **on:** November 24, 2005, 08:28:52 PM »

Yeah, still working out the kinks.

This weeks problem:

I\'m watching DVD\'s on my computer. When I\'m watching them in a window they are fine. Sometimes however if I open a program such as Word or FireFox, i sometimes lose the video on my player... e.g. it greys out... but the audio is fine. My main issue however is that whenever I go to fullscreen I lose video complete, e.g. it blacks out. I don\'t know what to do. Is it drivers? I dunno, i\'ll leave it to you guys.

« **Reply #1 on:** November 24, 2005, 08:43:27 PM »

could you possibly give us even less information?

« **Reply #2 on:** November 24, 2005, 08:46:15 PM »

He could have not posted?

« **Reply #3 on:** November 24, 2005, 09:18:56 PM »

I don\'t know what else to say. When its windowed its fine, when its fullscreen it\'s not.

« **Reply #4 on:** November 24, 2005, 09:58:20 PM »

What program you using? Do you have the latest version of DirectX 9c and Windows Media Player 10?

« **Reply #5 on:** November 25, 2005, 01:16:36 AM »

or at least the media player 10 codecs (ugh, I hate mediaplayer).

Perhaps you can use the opensource Media Player Classic, VLC Player, or the free version of BS player. Those are in order that I \'rate\' them. Make sure that you have checked your media player options - if it is set to "resize on fullscreen" or "change resolutions" then toggle that on or off. Make sure that if you set the resolution, you test that resolution. Lastly if you change video modes while you watch a movie, most media players won\'t pick up on that, and will go black, but you might hear sound. MS word *shouldn\'t* be resizing your video display when it runs, but who knows, MS is crazy.

« **Reply #6 on:** November 25, 2005, 01:37:01 AM »

I\'m thinking the issue is related to overlay vs. Video Mixing Renderer 9. VMR9 is a newer, much more intelligent renderer, it let\'s you print screen video as it\'s in motion, handles several streams & dual-monitor support better, allows for better colorspace among other things.

It\'s included with DX9 and the latest WMP can take advantage of it. AFAIK it\'s up to the software to use it though.

§ôµÏG®ïñD · « **Reply #7 on:** November 25, 2005, 05:04:10 AM »

get powerdvd

Paul2 · « **Reply #8 on:** November 25, 2005, 05:21:06 AM »

THX is right, do your Windows version have DirectX 9 yet? That\'s really important there. Not only will this new and latest version improve on videogame quality, it will also improvement on motion video quality too, even High Definition too.

And if you haven\'t have Windows Media Player 9 or later version yet, download it.

PowerDVD is a software I mainly use for DVD video too and it also works really good too.

« **Reply #9 on:** November 25, 2005, 07:33:02 AM »

I\'m pretty sure I have DirectX9.0c

I was using WMP9, but I upgraded to 10. The issue remained with both. I\'ve also been using Nero Showtime, but that yields the same result.

Paul2 · « **Reply #10 on:** November 25, 2005, 11:02:12 AM »

You really sure you have DirectX9?

BTW, how do we check to see what DirectX version our Computers have?

§ôµÏG®ïñD · « **Reply #11 on:** November 25, 2005, 04:03:58 PM »

start menu, run,

type in

dxdiag

« **Reply #12 on:** November 25, 2005, 04:16:16 PM »

I guess this is the problem.

Quote

Only one instance of video overlay (in which streaming video is played over other graphics on your desktop) can be running at a time. Programs that use overlay include WebTV, Microsoft NetMeeting, and many video capture programs.

Close any other open programs to free resources on your computer, and then close and restart your DVD player.

[

Hello

Author Topic: Problem watching DVD\'s... (Read 817 times)