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Old 24th February 2008, 21:47   #1139  |  Link
DrNein
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For Theater Mode (mirroring), typically, enable it for display 1 and leave it in Standard Mode for display 2. With XP, the default renderer is VMR7 windowed and that is also the best (so either leave set to System Default or to be certain set to VMR7 windowed). Old Renderer may result in same but as it varies should be probably be avoided.

Clone mode results may differ but Extended is essentially required for practical purposes when the displays have different resolutions. Also, mirroring is disallowed by BD/HD DVD so the player must be moved to the second display to view there.

Overlay Mixer = quality issues (see film ratings text, for example)
VMR7 (windowed) = good
VMR9 (windowed) = no picture
VMR7 (renderless) = no DxVA, no mirroring
VMR9 (renderless) = no mirroring
Haali's Video Renderer = no DxVA, no mirroring
EVR (Vista / .NET3) = no DxVA, no mirroring (if it even works)
EVER Custom Pres. = no picture
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