Overlay pal video freeze

[Sebastian Eskildsen]

Hi Bob

I was testing the video overlay funktion with a Matrox G550 running
in dvdmax mode, with the treatment you describe in another post.

What happens is, that the video on the secound monitor freeze, and won´t
update.
If I then turn to ntsc in the size window everything works fine.

Sebastian

[Bob L]

Have you turned OFF the Scale Only On Page Flip option in the DVDMax... it must be OFF.

Bob L

[Sebastian Eskildsen]

Yes,
I will try to convert a pal avi into a ntsc, and then see what happens,
I will report the resault monday evening.

Sebastian

[Bob L]

The overlay hardware must also be set correctly to output to a PAL format. Also, you may need to tell the viewer that you are using PAL for the render format in its options menu.

I have no PAL TV monitor to be able to try this so all PAL stuff has been designed blind with feedback from non-US users.

Bob L

[Sebastian Eskildsen]

I was using a dual monitor matrox G550 card, without composit output.
so the overlay output monitor is a normal vga display running at 1280x1024
pix.

Sebastian

[Bob L]

That's a whole different ball game... DirectDraw will not operate on the secondary monitor... and drawing the video on the computer monitor is cpu intensive... different than the overlay which is a hardware scaling circuit that sizes in hardware and outputs to a TV output.

If you want to do video out to a monitor, use a TV monitor on the composite or SVideo output from the Matrox... then use the overlay render option... its a much better way to get full scale video on a screen than trying to size up the viewer on a secondary monitor.

Bob L