ah nice to post in the off-topic forum again 
I have a little problem with my geforce 4,… when I use the tv-out function everything seems to work at first,… my desktop is shown on the tv etc,…
However when I play movies in any media player (tried media player 6.4, 8.0, and powerDVD), the movie itself doesn’t show,… it’s just black.
Anyone got any ideas what is causing this? I know it used to work for me before.
Thanks and Greets,
Timothy
i’ve never had a problem with it. have you tried putting it to fullscreen? and does it play if you put it on the monitor?
d52477001
Hi!
Did you set the right TV-mode ?
I thought I ahd it right… but the movies kept glitching and warping… i had to set it to some odd PAL version… Pal-L or N or something like that.
But I never had a black screen problem…
Does the problem occur only in full screen or in windowed too?
Maybe your drivers could use a slight update!
Ciao
Dani
yes it just simply doens’t show the movie,… not in full screen and not in windowed mode,…
everything else it shows perfectly
I’ve run into the same problem- I get the movie on the monitor, but nothing on the TV-out, or even on the second monitor. I’ve also seen a similar problem when trying to screen-cap from DVDs
(for modelling purposes), just a black rectangle where the movie was. Is this some sort of DRM, as in the movie image itself being overlaid by the video board? I know this is how it works on SEM/FIB/other fance imaging stuff, the PC generates a blank window, and the SEM/FIB etc video board overlays the image on the blank spot.
Cheers, JJ
yes snoochybooc i think you have it but ive never tried it with a video out. have played regular videos this way though.
hmm yes that may very well be it yes,… I’ll see if I can poke around with the settings more tomorrow,… stupid thing is t he tv is 10 meters away and 1 floor down, so progress isn’t exactly fast
Are you using a VCR or a converter for the signal ?
Timothy.
ok i have a Geforce4 Ti4200 with TV out /tv in function.
i have problems with Windows media player
but now i use a VERY ROBUST program called
ZOOM PLAYER
it will go into full screen mode on the TV monitor and STAY like that even if the mouse is moved. it is honestly the BEST player i have ever used, it has NO fancy BS on it and just plays EVERY media file you have a codec for (except RM i think)
DVD’s
AVI’s
VCD’s
etc… if you have a codec it will play it, other functions such as fast foward and slow play, toggle between onscreen tracking bar, and not having it.
it has things i have never ever used, and if you need to manually change somthing like the framerate i am sure its in their somewhere.
ZOOM PLAYER
http://www.inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_download.shtml
it is better than EVERYTHING, clean interface, right click does everything (like gimp)
but yeah i don’t know about your black screen problem. the only black screen problem i have ever had is when i would start or open the movie in the main window then DRAG it across to the tv, now i just open them directly in the tv.
also as someone earlier said, the video card uses Hardware to overlay the movie image, it uses a thing called DIRECTSHOW which is normaly built into windows. it controls the black place holder for the movies to be overlayed apon.
which is also why you cannot press print screen to capture a movie frame.
Alltaken 
cool,… I’ve been looking for a nice mediaplayer,… one better than stupid windows mediaplayer.
Will give it a go today
also a better codec than DivX
“Fddshow”
is the recomended codec for DivX and Xvid decoding (it can’t encode)
it is a more solid decoder for Divx than Divx’s own codec, it uses less CPU resources (meaning a slower computer won’t jerk as much)
it is fantastic, and decodes more than own format (i don’t know if it does anymore than divx and xvid, but hey its great)
its recomended by the guys who make ZOOM PLAYER.
hoenestly i have tried many many players and had HEAPS of codecs, but now i only ever use ZOOM PLAYER and about 3 codecs!!!
much cleaner.
no more codec PACKS (which can cause conflicts and stop any movie from playing)
Alltaken
p.s. i know you will love ZOOM PLAYER!!!
I’ve been following this thread and wondering if anyone has played around with software vs. hardware DVD playing, i.e. if your graphics board has the DVD decoder built on it, if you can bypass it, use the CPU/software for doing the decoding, and maybe get around the hardware DRM stuff. Hmmm… maybe in Linux, time to go goof around with the reservoid dogs DVD…
Cheers, JJ