TV out question

[Sesshoumaru]

Hey,

I already asked this on the MGA Forum but I thought I'd ask here too. Does anyone know how to output a plain black screen in DVDMax mode? This is instead of showing nothing while it isn't active. I need it so I can record my video files to my VCR with out having to watch ten hours of video to stop blue screens or the desktop showing up. Any help would be great.

Thanks

[Peter Aragon]

Hi Sesshoumaru, welcome to the board

I don't know exactly if this helps, but turn off clone and dualhead, and only enable DVDMax.
If you do that, it shouldn't show the desktop anymore.
But please tell us if you have a G400/450/550 and Win9X/ME/2K/XP running, because it can vary from OS and card type.

[Sesshoumaru]

Yeah, sorry I forgot to do it the post on MGA forum as well. In DVDMax mode only it doesn't output anything when there is no Digital Video being played, which on my VCR causes a blue screen which is just as bad as switching between my desktop and the video.

Anyway, my system is as follows:
Celeron 500
384 Mb RAM
ViewSonic E70 17" monitor
Matrox G450 32Mb DDR
SoundBlaster Live! 5.1
Windows 98

That should do it. Anyway, thanks for your reply.

[prr]

You must use software that reuses the Video Renderer/Overlay Mixer while switching between clips. Unfortunately I haven't seen any such program, because it has no sense for typical video playback.

[Sesshoumaru]

Ok thats well and good... does anyone know how to do that then? Just some code examples or point me to a place that has them. I'm a programmer in C++ so I should be able to work out what you mean if you post some code in C++ (I also understand a little of VBasic too - not that that is hard ).

Thanks for your speedy replies, its much appreciated.

[prr]

Take a look to MS DirectX SDK.