Video Mirroring

[JHONO]

Hi all Recently if you've not heard that video mirroring is no longer supported on the latest Nvidia 8800 series cards. This is an problem for me and a lot of other people as well since i cant extend my desktop to my 32" HDTV to view my media.

Was just wondering though, are there any TV cards or other types of PCI-E hardware out there that i could use for extending my destop to my TV for video mirroring?

Ive also cloning my desktop to my TV but the TV basicly lowers the screen resolution of my Monitor since that is set to 1680x1050.

Im sure theres a few people who have these issues as well

Any idears on additional hardware just to try to get this back?

Thanks

 

[kylew]

I think what you want is spanning, like they both act as one wide-er screen? Mirroring, you will the same thing on both screens. I don't see why NV cards wouldn't let you span your desktop, it's been a feature I've been using for years on both NV and ATi cards. You shouldn't need any additional hardware for this to work. Have you tried reinstalling your drivers? Or updating them to the latest set?

 

[helmutcheese]

Hmm, I still do what I did on my 6800Ultra and 7800GTX and 7900GTX.

I use Desktop extension, I see my Windows desktop on Both Monitor and TV, all icons are on Monitor as TV is the extension.

I then watch movies etc on TV with Monitor free to view other things.

Is this what you need ?.

I do know the Mirror options you talk about but never seen need to even use them.

 

[thegoonden]

What, they removed Video mirroring?
Thank $DEITY I found out before I bought a TV.

How do you make all video automatically appear on the tv then?
Can you still set the TV and Monitor as display 0.0 and 0.1 in Linux so you can specify where things go.

I'm starting to really hate nvidia, if it wasn't for ATi's stuff being so ugly and slow and badly made, I'd bail.

 

[JHONO]

Hmm, I still do what I did on my 6800Ultra and 7800GTX and 7900GTX.

I use Desktop extension, I see my Windows desktop on Both Monitor and TV, all icons are on Monitor as TV is the extension.

I then watch movies etc on TV with Monitor free to view other things.

Is this what you need ?.

I do know the Mirror options you talk about but never seen need to even use them.

Yes this is what i need. it basicly only shows applications such as windows media player when you play a film or use some other program for a presentation ect. The option is supported with all older Nvidia cards such as the 6800 and 7800,7900 series cards its only recently that they stopped this option on the 8800 series and later cards. ATI does still support it i think but there cards dont benchmark well.

Theres got to be some sort of additional hardware out there to support this feature?

Thanks

 

[kylew]

Yes this is what i need. it basicly only shows applications such as windows media player when you play a film or use some other program for a presentation ect. The option is supported with all older Nvidia cards such as the 6800 and 7800,7900 series cards its only recently that they stopped this option on the 8800 series and later cards. ATI does still support it i think but there cards dont benchmark well.

Theres got to be some sort of additional hardware out there to support this feature?

Thanks

They're not as bad as people make them out to be. The 8800GTs and 3870s, there isn't that much between them in real terms. ATi's new cards are coming out in the next few weeks, and if the rumors are to be believed, they're going to be very powerful cards for the price they'll be selling at. I find it extremely difficult to believe that NV have removed this feature from their cards. I don't understand why.

 

[kylew]

What, they removed Video mirroring?
Thank $DEITY I found out before I bought a TV.

How do you make all video automatically appear on the tv then?
Can you still set the TV and Monitor as display 0.0 and 0.1 in Linux so you can specify where things go.

I'm starting to really hate nvidia, if it wasn't for ATi's stuff being so ugly and slow and badly made, I'd bail.

That's just just being silly. I don't like NV very much, but I wouldn't say their stuff's badly made or slow just because I don't really like them. They're "slower" doesn't mean they're slow though, as I said above, you'll be pretty much hard pressed to notice the difference between an 8800GT and 3870 in games.