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I have Nero 8 Showtime and WinDVD 9 and both of these players will not put the video in full screen even though the player is in full screen mode. The movies will play in the left top corner of the screen filling about one quarter of it up in the proper aspect ratio, the rest of the screen is black.
The current version of ForceWare I have on my system is 174.93 (8800GTS). I upgraded from 169.21 and that didn't help
This is a Vista system and I tried with AnyDVD on or off and hardware accel on or off, it doesn't make a difference. Someone suggested turning off Anti-Aliasing and Antistrophic Filtering and that did not help
Also, I have PowerDVD Ultra and Arcsoft Total Media Theater and they play fine. I do mean COMPLETELY fine.. The TV is connected via component and with these other two players as good or better than it does on my set-top/standalone boxes.
here's a picture:
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/5460/p4300021ga2.jpg
I can't get full screen on my HD-DVD's and BR's
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eaglemmoomin
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I also have this issue and its damn annoying. I'm running Vista64 and I have an 8800GT (which is HDCP compliant) running the latest Nvidia forceware drivers driving a 37inch toshiba 1080P lcd tv via a DVI-HDMI dongle. What on earth is going on. I really like WinDvd but at this rate getting hold of an old copy of PowerDvd 7.3 ultra looks like the only game in town.
Does anybody have any ideas/reasons for why this happens as its a bit poor really and I would think there would be a lot of very disgruntled 8800GT owners out there if HD media in WinDvd 9 does not work correctly with such a popular graphics card.
Does anybody have any ideas/reasons for why this happens as its a bit poor really and I would think there would be a lot of very disgruntled 8800GT owners out there if HD media in WinDvd 9 does not work correctly with such a popular graphics card.
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eaglemmoomin
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To aid anybody else that has had this issue:
It looks like Vista aero is what is causing the problem. After crashing the pc over something else. I started up in Windows basic and when running Windvd playing The Matrix hd dvd it was in luvverly full screen 1080p hi def. I'm running the pc with Vista basic at the moment and everything looks to be working fine.
It looks like Vista aero is what is causing the problem. After crashing the pc over something else. I started up in Windows basic and when running Windvd playing The Matrix hd dvd it was in luvverly full screen 1080p hi def. I'm running the pc with Vista basic at the moment and everything looks to be working fine.
Im using a Nvidia 9600GT with forceware 175.16. Running Vista x64 SP1 with all updates and the latest directx.
Have a LG42" widescreen monior 1360x768 (yes supports HDCP)
I just tried my first HD-DVD using Corel 9.
When the HD-DVD movies starts im not getting fullscreen. Its almost like I get a 4:3 picture with a widescreen picture inside....
BTW this graphic card supports blu-ray and HD-DVD playback while aero is running. Still windvd disables aero, go figure.
Setting Vista color scheme to basic did not help.
Have a LG42" widescreen monior 1360x768 (yes supports HDCP)
I just tried my first HD-DVD using Corel 9.
When the HD-DVD movies starts im not getting fullscreen. Its almost like I get a 4:3 picture with a widescreen picture inside....
BTW this graphic card supports blu-ray and HD-DVD playback while aero is running. Still windvd disables aero, go figure.
Setting Vista color scheme to basic did not help.
Good to hear on the 9600GT! Thanks!magnusr wrote:Im using a Nvidia 9600GT with forceware 175.16. Running Vista x64 SP1 with all updates and the latest directx.
Have a LG42" widescreen monior 1360x768 (yes supports HDCP)
I just tried my first HD-DVD using Corel 9.
When the HD-DVD movies starts im not getting fullscreen. Its almost like I get a 4:3 picture with a widescreen picture inside....
BTW this graphic card supports blu-ray and HD-DVD playback while aero is running. Still windvd disables aero, go figure.
Setting Vista color scheme to basic did not help.
I think that LG is an HDTV, yes?
drive as HDTV in NCP (below)
As to the not-full-screen, look at your settings in Nvidia Control Panel in
Display / Manage custom resolutions, and (try HDTV)
Display / Change flat panel scaling,
and play around with a few settings in there and see if it changes anything...
I think you will be running 720p which is 1280x720 so you will have 40+40 pixels of black on the sides and 24+24 pixels of black on the top and bottom, if you run your TV at max. But I think you CAN play with settings in NCP and get close to the edge by setting a custom res.
hth
No its not a TV, its a monitor, it has a single DVI HDCP connection, no hdmi and no tv tuner. It runs at 1360x768 resolution.rose3 wrote:Good to hear on the 9600GT! Thanks!magnusr wrote:Im using a Nvidia 9600GT with forceware 175.16. Running Vista x64 SP1 with all updates and the latest directx.
Have a LG42" widescreen monior 1360x768 (yes supports HDCP)
I just tried my first HD-DVD using Corel 9.
When the HD-DVD movies starts im not getting fullscreen. Its almost like I get a 4:3 picture with a widescreen picture inside....
BTW this graphic card supports blu-ray and HD-DVD playback while aero is running. Still windvd disables aero, go figure.
Setting Vista color scheme to basic did not help.
I think that LG is an HDTV, yes?
drive as HDTV in NCP (below)
As to the not-full-screen, look at your settings in Nvidia Control Panel in
Display / Manage custom resolutions, and (try HDTV)
Display / Change flat panel scaling,
and play around with a few settings in there and see if it changes anything...
I think you will be running 720p which is 1280x720 so you will have 40+40 pixels of black on the sides and 24+24 pixels of black on the top and bottom, if you run your TV at max. But I think you CAN play with settings in NCP and get close to the edge by setting a custom res.
hth