antdude Posted October 7, 2008 Posted October 7, 2008 Hi! I am trying to watch DVBViewer Pro on my secondary display (an 15 years old 20" CRT TV) withj dualview setup (left side is my 19" LCD primary monitor via a VGA connection). Since the newer NVIDIA drivers have a bug with the incorrect aspect ratio with fullscreen overlay in clone mode, I have to use dualview to keep the aspect ratio correct. However, dualview doesn't seem stable in Windows XP Pro. SP3 for me. I switched DVBViewer, in its timeshift mode, to fullscreen on my 19" LCD monitor (primary fullscreen) and DVBViewer froze. Before that, I had it fullscreen on my TV and went to windowed mode so I could drag it left to my LCD monitor. Then, fullscreen and froze. I believe it was still recording because my TS file is still growing with the HDD light blinking. I did not end task it since I am still recording and didn't want to lose it if it is still good. I never had this problem with clone mode, but I didn't have to drag my DVBViewer between screens. I did do a lot of fullscreen to windowed mode without any lockups. I think I will stop using dualview for now since this is unstable and live with the incorrect aspect ratio on my TV with fullscreen videos. Is this a known issue? Thank you in advance. Quote
byngo Posted October 9, 2008 Posted October 9, 2008 Not sure of the answer but i bet nvidia would say its not a problem of their driver. I have an LCD monitor over VGA as primary and a 32"LCD HDTV via DVI-HDMI but gave up on clone mode and dualview because neither satisfied me. I have finally settled on only using single display mode, but it works well if you enable Nview desktop manager, and then set a keyboard shortcut to switch displays over. Each time you press the key combination, the desktop switches over, (as long as both are connected and on). This way I can also keep resolutions seperate. It is finally quite a pleasing scenario. My displays are quite near each other but actually in seperate rooms so a wirelss keyboard & mouse come in handy. As a footnote, its always best to stop video playback whilst switching. Even windowed mode and pause should work ok, but if your recording that's a unique problem. (ie, don't switch while recording) Quote
antdude Posted October 9, 2008 Author Posted October 9, 2008 Ah, I noticed Media Player Classic had the same problem with playback last night. Ugh. I don'tthink dualview is stable. Quote
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