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<blockquote data-quote="hale" data-source="post: 143266" data-attributes="member: 49390"><p>Yes, but it's particular to my setup.</p><p></p><p>First, my setup's pecularities. I've got a gForce4 MX440 based card with TV out, set up using "DualView" (2 seperate displays, not spanned, not mirrored). I've got the card set to use the "Full Screen Video" feature of the card to show a mirror of the DirectX/Video Overlay in full screen on my second monitor (autoselect "Full Screen Device" uses the TV) while the MP application is really running in a window on the LCD monitor next to the sofa (for web browsing). This doesn't use any extra processing power above that to just mirror the output to the TV in the graphic card which it can easily handle as the interface isn't exactly 3D virtual reality, is it. The card is set to 1280x1024 for the LCD and 800x600 for the TV.</p><p></p><p>I've read in lots of forums that you can't do this and I've given up arguing with people. It's in front of me working right now.</p><p></p><p>Now to get anamorphic output to the TV, I selected a wide screen skin for mediaportal then stretched the window to fit a 4x3 ratio (ie it looks a bit tall and thin on the monitor, but nothing I can't live with). I checked this bu setting the TV to 4x3 and it looks tall and thin, good news. hitting the TV's aspect ratio button 16x9 and the picture is stretched to wide screen. Nice usable anamorphic output.</p><p></p><p>This is far better than having a letterbox output from the graphic card and then zooming in as you loose a lot of pixels that way.</p><p></p><p>I'd still like it if I could just have full screen video in the TV, just video/dvd/DivX etc no buttons/inferface, and the interface and tv on the monitor, just as I do with ShowShifter and GotAllMedia. Then If I ever wanted the whole interface on teh TV I could just use a keyboard shortcut to send the interface to monitor2 (the TV) by setting up the nVidia software.</p><p></p><p>These are all things I used to have setup and working with an old Win98 machine and the now defunct ShowShifter. How long will it be before everyone else catches up with the past <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hale, post: 143266, member: 49390"] Yes, but it's particular to my setup. First, my setup's pecularities. I've got a gForce4 MX440 based card with TV out, set up using "DualView" (2 seperate displays, not spanned, not mirrored). I've got the card set to use the "Full Screen Video" feature of the card to show a mirror of the DirectX/Video Overlay in full screen on my second monitor (autoselect "Full Screen Device" uses the TV) while the MP application is really running in a window on the LCD monitor next to the sofa (for web browsing). This doesn't use any extra processing power above that to just mirror the output to the TV in the graphic card which it can easily handle as the interface isn't exactly 3D virtual reality, is it. The card is set to 1280x1024 for the LCD and 800x600 for the TV. I've read in lots of forums that you can't do this and I've given up arguing with people. It's in front of me working right now. Now to get anamorphic output to the TV, I selected a wide screen skin for mediaportal then stretched the window to fit a 4x3 ratio (ie it looks a bit tall and thin on the monitor, but nothing I can't live with). I checked this bu setting the TV to 4x3 and it looks tall and thin, good news. hitting the TV's aspect ratio button 16x9 and the picture is stretched to wide screen. Nice usable anamorphic output. This is far better than having a letterbox output from the graphic card and then zooming in as you loose a lot of pixels that way. I'd still like it if I could just have full screen video in the TV, just video/dvd/DivX etc no buttons/inferface, and the interface and tv on the monitor, just as I do with ShowShifter and GotAllMedia. Then If I ever wanted the whole interface on teh TV I could just use a keyboard shortcut to send the interface to monitor2 (the TV) by setting up the nVidia software. These are all things I used to have setup and working with an old Win98 machine and the now defunct ShowShifter. How long will it be before everyone else catches up with the past :) [/QUOTE]
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