Playing .avs script in WMP isn't fullscreened on my tv

[xLithium]

For reasons which even Nvidia isn't able to explain, I'm having tvout issues with my new video card (7300gt). When widescreen movies are fullscreened on my tv, the image gets stretched vertically. Nothing is "lost" horizontally, so the image isn't zoomed. In other words, its not letterboxing my video on the tv.

Which, incidentally, worked fine on my older card (fx5200) using the same tv, same wires.

So I had the idea to write a generic .avs script that could letterbox the movie for me in real time:


directshowsource("my_movie.avi")

# figure out by how much to letterbox the video to simulate wide screen

h = Width/4*3
h = h - Height
h = h / 2

AddBorders(0,h,0,h)


This works very well and as expected. However, imagine my surprise when I noticed the nvidia driver isn't fullscreening the video on my tv. In other words, I can still see the desktop around which is not acceptable... :(

I cannot simply fullscreen the player at that point, as my primary monitor is a viewsonic 16:10 where as my crt is 4:3, so my tv only displays a portion of the desktop.

I've tried with WMP6.4 and WMP classic.

I don't want to have to reencode all my avi's just to be able to watch them on my tv... Anyone know why .avs files aren't being fullscreened by the driver?

Any suggestions at all are welcomed, as you can probably see I'm trying just about anything at this point :)

TIA for any suggestions!

[int10h]

Disabling the TV in the nvidia panel should enable the automatic fullscreen TV output in any media player (in overlay mode if I remember correctly). I can't check this because I am not running Windows at home, so it might be slightly different, but playing with the different display configurations should be the right way.

[xLithium]

Thanks for you suggestion.

Although it didn't solve my problem, it did indrectly point me in the right direction! I enabled DualView (as opposed to clone), which allows me to fullscreen my player in a screen that's seperate from my main desktop. The combination of that, and my avisynth padding hack makes this all work beautifully!

Now if Nvidia could just fix their driver... :rolleyes:

Thanks again!