remove macrovision with nVIDIA

[DBuchholz]

Hello,
This is my first time posting and I am hoping that someone has a solution to my problem. I am using an eVGA nVIDIA GeForce FX5500 Video Card, 256MB DDR, 128-bit, DVI/TV-Out, 8X AGP, Model "256-A8-N313-LX" (To see the video card , go to

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-130-197&depa=1).

This card will not display movies on both my monitor and the television at the same time using S-video. My friend told me that macrovision is the reason that the video only displays on one or the other.
I read up on macrovision and found this thing called TVTool that will allow you to remove macrovision but unfortunately it does not work on NVIDIA cards. Does anyone have any suggestions? I would really like to have the movie display on both the TV and the computer since I have a sweet monitor also. Thanks in advance.

 

[ftechguy]

I don't think it's a macrovision problem, it's more likely an issue with overlay. YOur video card may not support overlay on both displays at the same time (I believe this is a pro level feature only)
As for a work-around, try disabling overlay on your dvd player options (or look for some kind of software overlay mode). Performance will suffer but it might work then.

 

[DBuchholz]

I wanted to clarify this a little more. The issue only arises when I want to watch a DVD. This is why I think it is macrovision and not the overlay. Everything else on the S-video displays fine. I am running WinDVD and when I play the movie on my PC, the movie displays fine on there. When it is on the TV, it only displays the WinDVD window and where the movie would display it is a black screen. Any other suggestions? Thanks

 

[Krosus]

You will find this problem on all videos you try and watch, take laptops for example using the function key and F4 is usually the way you can cycle the display of video on the laptop or tv or both showing at the same time so look for some shortcuts in the documentation, try alt+F4 maybe you can set your own chortcuts..

 

[norty303]

How about rolling back your drivers to the last version before macrovision was incorporated. I've seen threads about this before on this forum. Try searching

 

[cdogg]

Does the DVD ever display correctly on the TV, even if you turn your monitor off?

It could just be that your S-Video out port on your card doesn't support Macrovision, which is embedded into the video stream. If this is the case, that explains why only a black box would appear.

I'll search around more on the topic and post back in a bit...


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