Dual view with black boarders

[xs-1]

Hi

I am looking at running a PC in my lounge. I've set the PC up so my primary mointor is a LCD screen, with the secondary as the TV.

The problem is, when using dual view and setting the display properties to fullscreen, any app (say HVC+ or WinDVD) is resized to 480*640 on the TV, which creates large black boarders.

The TV is noraml set to 800*600 which has no boards.

If I set the TV to primary and LCD to secondary, the TV shows all apps at 800*600.

Specs:

WinXP + SP1a
Den 45.23
Card: Gefore2 with BT869 chip
Lastest 4in1 drivers for a KT400 chipset.

Is there any setting the Nvidia drivers at allows me to force the fullscreen setting to 800*600 instead of 640*480.

Cheers:rolleyes:

[oddball]

Depends on the player. Zoom Player allows you to set various aspect ratios as well as custom ratios. Give that a try. Windows Media Player in general does not give many options for setting up TV out.

TV's don't do 800x600 BTW. The video card downconverts it to TV standard resolution. Which is why you can get some odd things happening especially if you go above 1024x768. You end up having the desktop not displaying entirely on the TV and you have to scroll around with the mouse to see the bits that are cut off ;)

[xs-1]

Thanks. I've tried the different aspect ratios for zoomplayer, which is handy, but does not make use any more of the screen.

I guess the odd thing is that, when I use the TV as the primary device and increase zoomplayer or hvc+ to fullscreen, all of the desktop displayed on the TV is used to show zoomplayer or HVC+. But, when I have the TV as the secondary display with show 'fullscreen enabled' in the display properties (with = desktop showing on the TV as when it's the primary display) when any prog is shown on the LCD screen, it’s fullscreen minor on the TV appear to sink, and it appear to sink to a size that looks similar to the amount of screen space that is used when the TV’s resolution is at 640*480.

I really want to have HVC+ running with using all of the desktop shown on the TV, and keep the TV as the secondary display.

When you enable the nvidia’s display properties to ‘auto-select’ for fullscreen in secondary display, does the driver change the resolution of the TV-out to 640*480 from 800*600? Are there any corrections for this?
:rolleyes:

[oddball]

In tne Nvidia display properties under advanded there is the option to change the size of the desktop displayed on the TV clone mode. Also you can change the resolution to match what your monitor resolution is UP TO 1024x (But as stated it does not actually display TV out at that res just reizes accordingly).

Not sure what you mean by HVC+ but I didn't understand all of your post anyhow (Brain fried) :)

[xs-1]

Thanks for the post

HVC+ refer to a video decrypting prog - link http://mitglied.lycos.de/nooperation/hVCPlus/index.html

I've downloaded the lastest TVtool copy, well a newer version than the 6.8 version I had, and this has fixed it. It's still kind of odd though, when I start a media player (HVC+ or zoomplayer) the TV is resized from 800* to 640* according to display config in TVtool. The Nvidia drivers must force it.