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TVout on 6200. Widesreen movies horizontally stretched

roakes

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Hey all,

Been trying to watch widescreen avi files on a widescreen TV via DVI and it always seems to vertically stretch the image as in the video on the monitor has black borders but when played fullscreen on the TV it stretches it vertically and gets rid of them, which of course messes up the aspect ratio. There are no settings on the TV to stop it doing it so I assume its the signal coming from the PC.

Any ideas? Using the latest 94.24 drivers.

Thanks for the help

Russ
 
When the desktop screen is just cloned and the fullscreen video to secondary display mode isnt used then looking at the picture it seems right, but the video doesn't play then, just a black screen (but you can tell where the video should be and appropriate black borders above and below)

I know its not a widescreen res but its what the TV manual says it supports, surely even if it wasnt a widescreen res (especially in fact) then the borders should be bigger, not none existant?
 
if its not a widescreen rez then depending on the screen you will either get massive borders on the left and right of the screen. and then your video will run in the 4:3 screen area and since its widescreen video you will end up with black borders on the top and bottom of the screen.

if the tv does not put borders to the left and right when your running a non widescreen rez then it will stretch the image and it will look distorted.

what sort of tv is it? my bro uses a 6200 with 2 screens, 1 screen runs at 1280x720 and main screen runs at 1400x1050. so the 6200 can do it fine with no problems. its down to user error or crap tv.
 
LG RZ-27L750 apparently. Using media player 11 on XP

Sorry, in Spain at my parents trying to sort it out for them.

Just checked the manual and it does mention a 1280x768 resolution but the nvidia drivers dont seem to have an option to output at that res?
 
roakes said:
LG RZ-27L750 apparently. Using media player 11 on XP

Sorry, in Spain at my parents trying to sort it out for them.

Just checked the manual and it does mention a 1280x768 resolution but the nvidia drivers dont seem to have an option to output at that res?
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reason u can;t output to that rez is because the tv does not have the EDID in its firmware, or they did not provide you with a correct driver for that screen. either way it can be sorted, nvidia drivers are the best when it comes to custom monitor modes and timing.

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access that settings page and your off.
 
james.miller said:
do the vista drivers support custom timings for his card then? still doesnt for my 8800 yet. i dont like being stuck at 720p lol
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no idea i dont; have any nvidia card runing on a vista pc yet. but yea thats what im interesting in too, i want to know if that above advanced timing page is available for 8 series cards in vista. need someone to check it out.
 
Ok managed to add the resolution, but it made no difference to the fullscreen video.

Thing is, I'm not using clone and then just running a full screen window, its using the "Full Screen Video" option to output any video to the secondary display (TV). When I just try normal clone with that turned off it honestly looks right aspect ratio wise, but the video is just black on the TV but playing fine on the monitor.
 
james.miller said:
well, it definately isn't for 8800's. and as powerstrip doesnt support them either, i have no way of outputting 1080p to my sony 40w in vista lol
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what problem do you get? is your rez just not available?
 
nope, even if you enable all modes not supported, 1920x1080 isnt selectable. it was in xp, but it didnt work. using the nvidia drivers to create a 1920x1080 mode with discrete timings worked a treat, but you cant do that in vista yet.





...although at least flat panel scaling works in vista. lol :o
 
give this a try, i just put together a custom monitor driver for monitors native rez, see if it works and let me know.

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i just tried it and....nope lol. i rebooted vista just to make sure. the driver installed fine, but didnt allow me to choose 1920x1080. when i open the nvidia control panel to try from there instead, it redetected the tv and installed the generic non-PnP drivers again lol. sorry for some reason i didnt get an email notification when you last replied lol
 
Try dual-view? Then you can choose independent resolutions for each screen. The 'display full-screen video on <screen>' option will be gone, but you can just drag the video window onto the other screen and full-screen it. It won't be distorted.
 
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