Solve : Computer VGA Output Trouble?

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Answer» Hey. I recently acquiried a NVIDIA 64mb graphics card with a VGA output jack in addition to the one my monitor uses (NTSC?). I've hooked a Philips' SCUBA Virtual Immersion Visor up to the output and I've got it working decently (though the whole NVIDIA Control Panel interface for dual output support seems buggy at best). My purpose for doing this is for watching movies and and playing video games from my computer on my visor. I've yet to try out any games, but most videos fail to show up. If playing a .mpeg or .avi, in Windows Media Player for instance, I can see everyting on the screen except for the actual video footage. Once or twice I did see some flashes of colour, but mostly it was just black. The interesting thing is, though, QUICK Time movies do play fine, but no other file types do. I can only suspect it is related to the frame rate somehow. Visor is running at at 800 x 600, 32-bit colour, 60 hertz, and it wont seem to let me change the frame rate for the visor. What can I do to fix this? Thanks for any help you can offer me!NTSC? What does National Television System(s) Committee have to do with your computer monitor? What is the freaking Philips' SCUBA Virtual Immersion Visor? A computer monitor, a TV, ? If a computer monitor, what type (CRT, LCD)? Quote What is the freaking Philips' SCUBA Virtual Immersion Visor? It's a Virtual Reality headset . . . cool. He may just be confused when he says NTSC, acronyms can be confusing. He may MEAN DVI. He may also be referring to the video output format (PAL/NTSC). He may also be referring to something else entirelyt. Confusing for all involved. Please clarify.Sorry for the ambiguity. My mention of NTSC actually has nothing to do with my issue, though for what I knew, I was referring to the PAL/NTSC video format, which I believe is what the many-pin port my monitor uses is called, but I'm a little rusty on these things, thus the question mark. My issue actually involves the VGA output port, which is a little yellow circular plug, the sort newer TVs take along side the red and white ports for sound. The Visor uses this type of output since it was designed for consol systems, specifically the N64 and PS1 it came out AROUND the same time as. Thus, for all purposes, the Visor can be considered a TV. So I've plugged my "TV" into my video card along side my monitor, and my "TV" is showing only black where movies should be when they are played although everything else displays fine. I suspect this has something to do with the frame rate the movies are set up to play at becuase for a short time, while I was messing around in the NVIDIA Control Pannel to get the dual, cloned displays working, my monitor also ceased displaying movies in a similar fashion. Further testing with the Visor (my "TV") REVEALS that independant of the file type, some movies work and some don't. Some .mpeg, some .mpg, some .avi, some .wma and most quick time movies work. The ratio is about 1 movie works for every 10 I try. I hope this helps clarify things, and thanks again!Bump. Still hoping for an answer though.I have an Nvidia card and use my TV to watch movies so I'll try to help. 1-For the card to recognize the extra monitor it must be directly connected at bootup of the computer, you cannot connect it after the computer is on. 2- In desktop CLONE mode windows media player will show only on the primary monitor the clone will show a black play screen you must use an extended desktop setting and manually click and drag the player over to the second display, you drag the player to the right and it will appear on the second display as if you had the two displays side by side working as one except the displays have their own resolution and refresh rate. hope that helpsThanks for leading me in that direction! A continuous display didn't work well for full-screen viewing, but after testing around in that area of the NVIDIA Control Pannel, I tried independantly set-up displays, and that allows me to watch movies on my TV (visor) so long as it is set as the primary monitor. Thanks!

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Hey.

I recently acquiried a NVIDIA 64mb graphics card with a VGA output jack in addition to the one my monitor uses (NTSC?).

I've hooked a Philips' SCUBA Virtual Immersion Visor up to the output and I've got it working decently (though the whole NVIDIA Control Panel interface for dual output support seems buggy at best).

My purpose for doing this is for watching movies and and playing video games from my computer on my visor. I've yet to try out any games, but most videos fail to show up. If playing a .mpeg or .avi, in Windows Media Player for instance, I can see everyting on the screen except for the actual video footage. Once or twice I did see some flashes of colour, but mostly it was just black.

The interesting thing is, though, QUICK Time movies do play fine, but no other file types do. I can only suspect it is related to the frame rate somehow.

Visor is running at at 800 x 600, 32-bit colour, 60 hertz, and it wont seem to let me change the frame rate for the visor.

What can I do to fix this? Thanks for any help you can offer me!NTSC? What does National Television System(s) Committee have to do with your computer monitor?

What is the freaking Philips' SCUBA Virtual Immersion Visor? A computer monitor, a TV, ? If a computer monitor, what type (CRT, LCD)? Quote

What is the freaking Philips' SCUBA Virtual Immersion Visor?

It's a Virtual Reality headset . . . cool.
He may just be confused when he says NTSC, acronyms can be confusing.
He may MEAN DVI.
He may also be referring to the video output format (PAL/NTSC).
He may also be referring to something else entirelyt.
Confusing for all involved.
Please clarify.Sorry for the ambiguity. My mention of NTSC actually has nothing to do with my issue, though for what I knew, I was referring to the PAL/NTSC video format, which I believe is what the many-pin port my monitor uses is called, but I'm a little rusty on these things, thus the question mark.

My issue actually involves the VGA output port, which is a little yellow circular plug, the sort newer TVs take along side the red and white ports for sound. The Visor uses this type of output since it was designed for consol systems, specifically the N64 and PS1 it came out AROUND the same time as. Thus, for all purposes, the Visor can be considered a TV.

So I've plugged my "TV" into my video card along side my monitor, and my "TV" is showing only black where movies should be when they are played although everything else displays fine.

I suspect this has something to do with the frame rate the movies are set up to play at becuase for a short time, while I was messing around in the NVIDIA Control Pannel to get the dual, cloned displays working, my monitor also ceased displaying movies in a similar fashion.

Further testing with the Visor (my "TV") REVEALS that independant of the file type, some movies work and some don't. Some .mpeg, some .mpg, some .avi, some .wma and most quick time movies work. The ratio is about 1 movie works for every 10 I try.

I hope this helps clarify things, and thanks again!Bump. Still hoping for an answer though.I have an Nvidia card and use my TV to watch movies so I'll try to help.

1-For the card to recognize the extra monitor it must be directly connected at bootup of the computer, you cannot connect it after the computer is on.

2- In desktop CLONE mode windows media player will show only on the primary monitor the clone will show a black play screen you must use an extended desktop setting and manually click and drag the player over to the second display, you drag the player to the right and it will appear on the second display as if you had the two displays side by side working as one except the displays have their own resolution and refresh rate.

hope that helpsThanks for leading me in that direction! A continuous display didn't work well for full-screen viewing, but after testing around in that area of the NVIDIA Control Pannel, I tried independantly set-up displays, and that allows me to watch movies on my TV (visor) so long as it is set as the primary monitor.

Thanks!

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