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DVD Playback On Omar Thread last updated on 2006-06-24 04:20:27

Posted by member 318126 on 2006-06-21 01:27:58

For some reason whenever I play DVD's while using the LS shell there is a large black box around the video. You can only see like 5mm on the edge of the box. This also happens in Fullscreen. I have used both PowerDVD and Windowze Media Player 9/10/11. None of them display correctly. Whenever I set Explorer back as shell its fine. No problem at all.

Posted by member 280260 on 2006-06-22 13:10:24 link

Do you have an alpha-shaded pixel at (0,0)? This has been known to cause video problems. Do a forum search for more info.

Posted by member 318126 on 2006-06-22 13:45:35 link

Nope. It also happens on every theme that I have tried. Even the default one.

Posted by member 37809 on 2006-06-22 14:07:07 link

even without anything loaded? (rename/back up step.rc, create a blank step.rc)

also, try it without litestep running.

Posted by member 12025 on 2006-06-22 18:55:29 link

Display properties->settings->advanced, troubleshooting tab. Try lowering the acceleration slider.

Posted by member 212670 on 2006-06-22 19:29:25 link

Whoa... Cerbie siting!

Posted by member 318126 on 2006-06-22 20:09:03 link

@tnl
It doesnt matter if LS is running or not for some reason. I ran the player through taskman and same thing. I will try when I get on later if removing the step.rc will make any difference

@Cerbie
There is no option to lower the acceleration on PowerDVD. Just turn it on then off. Id be happy to run no HW acceleration if I had an Athlon X2 4200+ or something; This P3 just cant handle it.

Posted by member 1 on 2006-06-22 20:43:07 link

Cerbie's recommendation was to lower the graphics acceleration on the system via the Display option in the Control Panel.

Posted by member 318126 on 2006-06-22 22:46:38 link

Thank you DeViL for actually helping once. :) j/k man. Yea i had to turn it almost all the way down. Like the 3rd Setting from the lowest. May I ask what causes this? I doubt its a problem with the gfx card considering it works fine with explorer.

Posted by member 1 on 2006-06-22 23:33:49 link

Intelligent questions get Intelligent answers. But as the sig says...if yer dumb...Im gonna have some fun.

As for a why...can't remember why but it was in another thread.

Posted by member 318126 on 2006-06-23 00:59:30 link

Hah, Yea I understand man. You can lock this now if you want.

Posted by member 148416 on 2006-06-23 11:39:01 link

You can lock this now if you want.


I don't like ur tone, boy...

(jk) :P

Posted by member 12025 on 2006-06-24 04:20:27 link

xcal: yeah, back. Short and very uninteresting story: waterbed leaked (but nothing obvious), and had stuff growing all in it. Fixed that, feeling better, catching up and relearning my scripts :).

I don't know why the black box thing happens, but it has been happening since a few months after I got a GF4 (started after a driver update)--so, years.