Problem viewing movies in fullscreen (stretch-mode) (1 Viewer)

[tricke]

Hello,

I'm using Mediaportal with a NVIDIA Geforce FX 5200 graphic card and a Pioneer Plasma PDP436XDE (42 inch) - screen.

When I start Mediaportal in Fullscreen-mode (general settings : Fullscreen), I get a blank screen when viewing movies/DVD's in "stretch"-mode ("original"-mode gives me a small display with a wide border).

However, when I start Mediaportal in window-mode and then select "Fullscreen" in "options", the movies plays in stretch-mode without problems.

Does anybody have a similar problem or is this a bug ? Tips are welcome ...

Thanks. Greetz
Tricke


My PC : AMD Sempron 3100+, Microsoft Windows XP Home (NL), 1 GB DDR400, 200GB 7200RPM, DVD-RW Multi, Nvidia Geforce FX 5200, 9-in1 memory reader, Lan 10/100, incl. PS/2 keyboard & scroll mouse

 

[Nightmare77]

just out of interest what resolution is your desktop running at and what is the native res of the tv?

 

[arachnotron]

I have the exact same problem, but with an FX5700. The problem is with the nvidia settings, but I am unsure which one is the culprit. I have had it working in fullscreen mode twice, only to get the problem back again after tweaking the nvidia driver for my TV.

I am running the card at 1024x768, 75 Hz (PAL country), with a TV set attached to the s-vid out as primary display.

It looks like some tweaking options in the nvidia driver interfere with the directX acceleration, since disabling "Exclusive DirectX Mode for fullscreen TV/Video" also fixes the problem. Obviously, that is not something I like to do.

I suspect it has something to do with the overscan settings, but I have to do some further testing.

 

[tricke]

I am running my card at 1280 x 768 (= maximum resolution for my screen).

I tested on different resolutions but without result ...

Before I installed the NVidea-card, I used an ATI Radeon 9250-card which had the same problem ...

I'll keep on testing ... If you find something : let me know.

 

[Spragleknas]

If you have set your fonts to large: I've fixed this for a firend (and so could probably you if you searched the forums :twisted:
1. Set the font size in XP to normal
1b. Set PPT to normal (perhaps not necessary)
2. Uninstall MP
3. Delete MP folder (won't work with only re-inst.)
4. Install MP and patch
5. FIXED!

 

[tricke]

I tried it tonight and ... it works perfectly !!!

Thanks a lot for the help.

Greetz
Tricke

 

[jhoff81]

Wait, does that mean that you can't set windows fonts back to large after installing MP? If thats so, this fix is entirely worthless.

 

[arachnotron]

Thanks! I was using large fonts too. Weird problem. I wonder where the bug is - windows, nvidia or mediaportal.

Next stop: trying to find a workaround that works with big fonts. :-(

 

[jhoff81]

I agree, there has to be some other workaround that can be used. Don't get me wrong, I really like Mediaportal, but not enough to make it so that I can't see anything else on my desktop. This solution is quite frankly, a little ridiculous. Hopefully it'll be fixed by the next version.

 

[Spragleknas]

I read somewhere that this is a XP / WMP bug... not a MP one (although MP is dependant/based on the former)