asf playout on second monitor from playlist not smooth at transitions (WMP)

[pj0tr]

Hello everybody,

I've seen lots of great help on this forum and I've found lots of good advice on this site. At this time I am confronted with an issue i cannot find the answer to. I was wondering if there is an expert here who has a good solution for me to fix this. I need to use Windows Media Player because we have a custom made software player which uses media player for playout of the files.

While having a playlist in windows media player (on monitor one) and playing the playlist full screen on monitor 2 the video transition is not smooth.
Windows Media Player 11 plays the playlist fine on screen 1 but if videofile two comes up there is a blue screen (half a second) and the next videofile starts playing a second later then the screen on monitor 1.

This happens on a Windows XP PC with an ATI card and also on a NVidia FX5200.

Does anyone know which could cause this and what I can do to not have this issue.
I want to play it out full screen without "hickups" on file change.

Thanks in advance!

Kind Regards,

Pjotr

[Krispy Kritter]

I'm not fully sure what you are seeing. The playlist is on monitor two and the files are playing full screen on monitor one? My first guess would be a video driver and/or video overlay issue. What are the files types and specs?