Dvd Problems

[rogerdawn]

I have just installed a new dvd drive and when i try to run a dvd on it it gives me an error code and tells me to disable the tv out on my display card ....why does it do this and how can i get it to play them.....(its a pikaone drive with write and rewrite)

[CeeBee]

Your DVD player software or display driers might have a setting to force the output for DVD play on TV-out instead of the monitor. Check the settings for both.

[rogerdawn]

Your DVD player software or display driers might have a setting to force the output for DVD play on TV-out instead of the monitor. Check the settings for both.

ive looked everywhere for anything relating to tv out and cannot find any menu or options to change it...?

[NooNoo]

TV out is controlled by your video card driver... check the advanced settings in right click desktop, properties, settings tab.

[confus-ed]

TV out is controlled by your video card driver... check the advanced settings in right click desktop, properties, settings tab.

From the symptoms described so far it looks like a setting similar to 'tvclone' is ticked on the video options, where the video driver attempts to duplicate what's on the monitor to any connected tv, many bits of player s/w can't do this with many video drivers (knowing what that is would give yet more clues )

[freddy]

had this prob the other day on a customers machine , power dvd nvidia card ,,,could not find the setting (was,nt there) ,,,,saying it could not play copyrighted dvds and to diable ,,,,etc etc ,,,


solution : chuck power dvd in the bin ,,,and load windvd.



hope that helps



freddy

[rogerdawn]

From the symptoms described so far it looks like a setting similar to 'tvclone' is ticked on the video options, where the video driver attempts to duplicate what's on the monitor to any connected tv, many bits of player s/w can't do this with many video drivers (knowing what that is would give yet more clues )

ive looked into it and the display card is a built in sis530 display adapter if that helps.... by the way ive just done as someone suggested and dowloaded a trial version of windvd and the message i get now is "create overlay failed..please lower your screen resolution or colour depth" have lowered to min and still get the same message???

[rogerdawn]

TV out is controlled by your video card driver... check the advanced settings in right click desktop, properties, settings tab.

I have looked in suggested places for all tv out options and cannot find any check box to disable tv out.....could it be that i have a built in video adapter and not a display card (sis530)???by the way i have a 500mhtz processor and 60 mb ram with a 20gig hard drive...??

[rogerdawn]

I have looked in suggested places for all tv out options and cannot find any check box to disable tv out.....could it be that i have a built in video adapter and not a display card (sis530)???by the way i have a 500mhtz processor and 60 mb ram with a 20gig hard drive...??

does anybody think that a new self installed display card of some type may cure the prob and if so can you suggest one???

[confus-ed]

Have a look at this ... WinDVD Questions ... I have a strange feeling it won't help ... but you never know !

This is what I found about SIS 530 'onboard' graphics ...

Supports tightly coupled 64bits 100MHz host interface to graphics controller for speeding up GUI performance and video playback.
Built-in programmable 24-bit true-color RAMDAC up to 230MHz pixel clock.
Supports multiple adapters and multiple monitors.
Flexible design for shared frame buffer or local frame buffer architecture.
Shared system memory area 2MBytes, 4MBytes, or 8MBytes.
Supports digital flat panel port for digital monitor (LCD panel).
Built-in DVD hardware accelerator.

That says for sure that it ought to work ! So I guess that's good

If you can't find any tv out features in your driver property pages it must pressumably be set by default in whatever driver version you are using, so try another driver ! So either the reference drivers for that chipset available here @ SIS (one of those 'I can't link you directly sites' - you'll have to fill some boxes in ) or @ windows update (hopefully you know where that is )....