Video card not playing full screen on TV using TV-out

[Tearren]

Hello!

My TV-out on my video card for the TV does not take up the full screen of the TV like it does on the computer. It fits at the top and bottom, but the sides have black bars. Its like I am watching a letter box movie side ways. It happens with the actual screen itself and not just in the player I am using to play video. Is there a way to strech the picture to the left and right on the TV like I can for my computer monitor? Or a program that will fit the TV screen?

I have a GeForce2 Ti Nvidia 64MB video card with S-video out. 1400 AMD.

Anyone know how to fix this please???

I can't change the screen resolution when playing TV out.

Thanks,
Tearren

[musher70]

what'd run your screen resolution at?when running output,
i run 800x600, and i use "clone"setting in video properties,
but i too, get little black bars, not too bad though...

[Tearren]

Thanks for the quick response musher70.

I believe my resolution defaults to 800x600 also when I switch to TV-out. It won't allow me to change the resolution settings from this when it plays TV-out. I am not familiar with the "clone" settings, can you fill me in on that?

So you get the side bars as well? Is this normal, I guess?? Yea you are right they are not too bad, but if it is possible I would like to make the picture fit the full TV screen.

Thanks

[energy80s]

Yeah, I've never been able to get a FULL picture displayed on a TV screen yet. I'm not sure if it's a PAL / NTSC thing (NTSC's native resolution is 640x480) but ATI cards refuse to output at full frame PAL.

[Dragonsf]

You can use TVTool to fill the black borders on left and right of the TV-Out screen.It should work with any NVidia Chip.

[Tearren]

DragonSF- TVtool works great. Lets me display fullscreen and has some other cool features too. I regestered it yesterday. Thanks.

[svetz]

You might want to try fiddling with the overlay controls in your GF settings. It fills my tv screen with whatever video I'm playing without borders, unless of course the video has them hardcoded.

Goto display properties and then to the advanced tab, thrn to the GF settings and set your display to clone on the tv as mentioned earlier, then goto overlay controls. Set the full screen device to second (or whichever is your TV) and set the zoom control to both.

Now most vids should play full screen without borders, you may need to force overlay in your codec settings though. To test if this is working without resorting to that try a RealPlayer file as it seems to work with out any fiddling.

HTH

[mgillaus]

I have a geforce4, and don't know if this will work with older ones, but i downloaded some newer drivers than the ones i had, they are 41.09, and the geforce part of the advanced display props in control panel is a bit different, but basically the same.

on the twinview, nview tab, i adjust the secondary screen adjustment, with flicker filter and all that, there is a new slider there called, zoom. you can adjust it so it zooms in and out and it will remove the black bars all around the screen.

so you can play movies, games and not have those annoying bars. I also think this is better than having tvtool. because you don't have to register it and you can still have your proper twinview without your monitor running at 50hz...

please let me know if any of you other guys can/have do/done this.

[Greycat]

The latest post to this discussion about full screen on TV sets
was from February... let's see if I can have some new inputs,
because I'm having the same problem here with my
NNivia GF2 MX200.

When I used NVidia driver 4.13.01.2311 (or just 2311) I was able
to get *real* fullscreen on my TV set. Note: When I say *real*
full screen, I'm talking about *overscan* (when the image fills
the entire TV screen with no annoying little black borders around
de 4 corners of the image, like in computer monitors). And I'm *not*
talking about letterboxed movies -- this feature I can easily get
rid of just setting the "zoom" control in NVidia control panel.

The problem is that when I install any NVidia driver higher than
version 2311 (i.e. 2832 or even the latest 40-something with that
new interface), I have no *real* full screen anymore,
only those damn little black borders!

I tried every suggestion posted above and have *no success*.
The *only way* to get glorious overscan back again is downgrading
to the old driver version 2311.

Does anyone know why driver versions higher than 2311 do not allow
overscan on TV sets, or is that only happening with me?!?

Thanks for any hint!

-- Greycat.

[Greycat]

Anybody... ?

[theDruid]

Greycat,

I've no idea why the newer versions aren't working for you - but I have one question:

If the older driver (detonator 4.13.01.2311) works so well, why not just leave that one on?

I've discussed this elsewhere, and I'm not so sure the very latest det's have that much to offer to those of us with GeForce2's - as opposed to GF4's, nForce etc.. (although I didn't know about the zoom in TV-out, so I'll be downloading a det that has that.)

I personally found a version of the det which I liked, and have stuck with it.

Is there something about the latest versions (i.e. post 4.13.01.2311) which you need so badly?

cheers,
mcdruid.

[Greycat]

theDruid:

If the older driver (detonator 4.13.01.2311) works so well, why not just leave that one on?

That's exactly what I'm doing. I just wanted to know why the heck
a newer version of a driver doesn't allow some features the older
one does. It's strange. Maybe I should upgrade the video board too...

Is there something about the latest versions (i.e. post 4.13.01.2311) which you need so badly?

Anything that anyone needs of a newer version of anything:
better performance. That was not the case.

Thanks, theDruid!

[Greycat]

mgillaus:

on the twinview, nview tab, i adjust the secondary screen adjustment, with flicker filter and all that, there is a new slider there called, zoom. you can adjust it so it zooms in and out and it will remove the black bars all around the screen.

Wow! It really works! I haven't noticed that because in my driver version the control is called "screen size", not "zoom".

Thanks a lot, mgillaus and others!

[2scoops]

After half an hour of tairing my hair out i have managed to get my TV out working. I then set about sorting the "FULL SCREEN" viewing problem by using the overscan settings on my NVIDA card to zoom into the picture to stop the horrible letter box black bars. To play my DVD's i'm using Power DVD which i love to bits, however i have been disappointed with the quality of picture. The quality i get is like watching a decent quality DIVX file on my PC monitor. I am probably being over demanding because i am resizing a widescreen image to fit on a 4:3 PAL TV - i should expect some "pixelation" particulary on dark images (because i'm zooming in). Can anyone recommend any software or settings that may help the pixialtion problem.

[kennyg_uk]

Does anyone have a solution for this problem for an ATI card?

I have the same problem but TV Tool only works on NVidia cards.