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Competent
Profile Joined April 2010
United States406 Posts
October 14 2012 05:21 GMT
#1
I am dual monitoring with a TV. It's an Element 32'' LCD hooked up via HDMI to my nVidia 460. I can watch netflix on the 32'' just fine, but when I want to play a DVD with Windows media player the screen goes black and the sound stops when I drag the player onto the 32''.

I have tried a different player, but I get the same result. Anyone have ideas or might have had the same issue? Thanks.
Nurrrhhh, I'm gonna be A+ by Wendsday! -Day[9] "I'm going to spread out my lings so it looks like there is more. Lots of animals do that." -CatZ
Mechanism4
Profile Joined March 2011
United States20 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-10-14 08:04:01
October 14 2012 08:01 GMT
#2
I've noticed my second monitor go black sometimes when running/starting programs like guild wars 2 full screen on my main monitor while watching gsl on the side monitor. Alt tabbing to the gsl and/or putting the game i'm running in windowed mode made my second monitor come back to normal.

I've never had the sound cut out on mine when the screen goes black like that. Maybe the sound on your end is playing from the TV when you slide the media player over?
My setup is two gts 250s each running a 22" monitor at 1920x1080 native resolutions.
TMStarcraft
Profile Joined September 2010
Australia686 Posts
October 14 2012 10:30 GMT
#3
Try using media player classic (mpc). If that doesn't solve it look in options > playback > output, depending on what video renderer is chosen you can check or uncheck "reinitialize when changing display". Unchecking/checking it may help but play around with it and see how it goes.

Might even be a DVD specific thing, does it happen with other videos?
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Doko
Profile Joined May 2010
Argentina1737 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-10-14 10:52:56
October 14 2012 10:52 GMT
#4
Could be a copy protection messing with your 2nd output. Does it happen with a normal video file on the same media player software?
Competent
Profile Joined April 2010
United States406 Posts
October 14 2012 13:24 GMT
#5
The sound is playing from the TV

MPC worked after the reinitialize was unchecked; however, I can't seem to make it go full screen because to the right it creates a still image of the video.

Yes it still happens when playing normal video files.
Nurrrhhh, I'm gonna be A+ by Wendsday! -Day[9] "I'm going to spread out my lings so it looks like there is more. Lots of animals do that." -CatZ
TMStarcraft
Profile Joined September 2010
Australia686 Posts
October 15 2012 03:44 GMT
#6
Give CCCP a try but other than that I've never had this problem before so it's hard to say.

http://cccp-project.net/

You say the media player screen goes black and the sound stops when you drag it over to the 32", have you tried moving the media player over to the 32" before launching the video?
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Competent
Profile Joined April 2010
United States406 Posts
October 18 2012 00:56 GMT
#7
On October 15 2012 12:44 TMStarcraft wrote:
Give CCCP a try but other than that I've never had this problem before so it's hard to say.

http://cccp-project.net/

You say the media player screen goes black and the sound stops when you drag it over to the 32", have you tried moving the media player over to the 32" before launching the video?



Haven't tried CCCP yet. Will update you when I do.

Yes I have tried that. I can launch WMP and place it on the 32'' as long as it is just the player. When I select the video file to play--either from the dvd drive or a file on the computer--it then goes black.
Nurrrhhh, I'm gonna be A+ by Wendsday! -Day[9] "I'm going to spread out my lings so it looks like there is more. Lots of animals do that." -CatZ
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