nView Problems

[caLLous]

OK, I just picked up my TV and plugged it into the TV-out on my Geforce4 Ti4600 and there are a couple of annoying little things that annoyingly annoy me in an annoying way...

Firstly, the image is too big for the screen, and is slightly cut off around the top and left hand edges. I can't do anything about this on the telly, but I found NVKeystone, which seems to be an output resizing thing. I don't have net access on my PC at home so I was completely sans documentation until about 5 minutes ago, and now NVKeystone doesn't seem to be what I'm after. So I fiddled around with that (oh my god how annoying is it to get the sizing right :/) but whenever I try to play a movie (be it DVD, DiVX, SVCD or whatever) it reverts back to the "cutting bits off" problem. And I also wanted to play games on the telly, but the cutting thing causes problems here too. There's an option in the nView properties to switch the screen size down (there are 2 settings) but this leaves me with two-inch-thick black borders around the image, and I'd quite like to be able to use the full potential of the TV.

The second problem is with video mirroring. Sometimes, it just decides not to play a certain avi fullscreen on the telly. It's fine with 99% of them, just a couple. It's not a DiVX problem I don't think, as they're pretty much all either DiVX 3.1 or XViD, both of which I've played with no problems mirrored on the telly. There's a get around to this by moving the media player I use onto the telly's bit of the desktop and maximising it, but it's not fullscreen and that's not exactly potential maximising.

Any help would be greatly thankied, I'm just off to try nView 2.0 to see if it addresses any of these issues...

 

[caLLous]

OK, so nView 2.0 didn't fix shit...

 

[leggy]

I was gonna post the same problem.

Help meh too

 

[WPKenny]

You want to get hold of TVTool.

www.tvtool.de (there's a english button somewhere)

It costs 10 quid to subscribe for life which, for me, is a bargin.

That's got 3 options to get rid of that clipping you describe. Through email I got the latest beta which has specific support for the GF4 although I don't know if this release is public (version 7).

Try it out although you'll only get tens mins out of it if you're not registered.

 

[Embattle]

If WP calls it a bargin, well then it is

 

[caLLous]

Thanks Kenny, I haven't tried it yet, but it sounds like exactly what I want.

And I thought of another problem which you may be able to help with... If I have (for example) a 2cd divx movie that I want to watch on the telly, whenever I queue stuff up in media player or whatever, it always plays the first avi file, then flickers/flashes a bit, before not playing the second one on the tv... the only way around this at the moment is to close media player and open the second file manually. This is a pain in the arse if I'm on the other side of the room...

 

[WPKenny]

I've never done that before (just one move file at a time...but I know what you're talking about) but in the nView setting you can go into the overlay controls and tell it which display you want to use as a full screen display. I find this handy for when I want to just whack a movie on the TV for others to watch and I can still fart about on my pc....albeit in 800x600.

 

[caLLous]

This isn't a problem, but it made me smile. You have to register/buy Quicktime to be able to watch .mov's fullscreen, but if you have a TV (or second monitor) with nView, the video overlay sends it to that device fullscreen! Mwahaha.

That is all.