Im running Litestep with the nonstep module. When I try to run a DVD with my DVD player (I have tried over 15 different players now) in fullscreen I get a black screen.

I can play dvds in compact mode and they work just great, but as soon as I turn them fullscreen, I get a black screen and nothing works.

Im wondering if this has something to do with the fact that nonstep has 4 desktops... I have tried the dvd player in Explorer, and of course it works file. Should I try to test the players in a different theme? or does somebody know a solution to this problem? or is there a specific player that can by-pass this problem?

Thanks in advance.

Go to display properties -> advanced, and the troubleshooting tab. Sstart dropping the HW acceleration. Around the middle the DVD playback should work.

Hi Cerbie,

At just past halfway, the DVD player stopped working and starting giving me errors in displaying etc... At no point did the fullscreen begin to work. Im using NVidia GeForce FX 5900XT if that has anything to do with anything.

btw...nonstep is a theme...not a module.

As for your problem. Have you tried enabling explorer and seeing if that clears up your issue? If it does start by disabling all of your LS modules except one or two and work from there.

Did you restart the player each time you changed it?
I have a 5900XT, too, and it typically works down there at the 3rd or 4th notch, but nothing happens if the player isn't started again (PowerDVD 5). It's possible that yours requires HW acceleration for the full screen mode. Or maybe the OS does it a bit different (I'm on Windows 2000).

The behavior was no different for me with a GF4 (Det 29.42), Radeon 9800SE (modded to 128-bit Pro), or Radeon 9600XT.

Hey Cerbie, yah that worked.

However, what does the HW acceleration do? If I keep it at about halfway, will that reduce any of my other graphic capabilities? What exactly did it do when I moved it down?

In Windows, your desktop gets hardware 2d acceleration. The video card handles drawing much of the transparent areas and moving windows (with accel fully off, try moving a window, especially around a transparent area, and it will be slower). The thing it does that causes problems, I believe, is that most video goes through the video card to make it look nice and smooth (also, Radeons and Geforces have integrated MPEG1/2 decoding).

However, this will disable other acceleration. You'll have to move it back up to max to play games; but AFAIK, nobody has a clue why this stuff requires Explorer.

Cerbie, do you think this could explain why video (DVD players, Windows Media, etc) doesn't show up on my primary monitor, only on my secondary? (I'll try it when I get home, but I'm at work right now)

I don't know. I've never used multiple monitors.