Playing Videofiles with ArcadeVGA?

[Zombie]

got ArcadeVGA + Arcade monitor.
i would like to watch music videos on my MAME cabinet, yes lol..

Windows Media Player only displays 1/10 of the image, in full screen its the same. have also tried PowerDVD player and same problem.

switching resulution didnt seem to help either,
anyone have the same problem or know how to fix it?
thanks!!

[Minwah]

Do you have your PC monitor plugged in at the same time?  If so, disconnect it.

What res. are you running Windows in?  And what res/size are your movies?

[Zombie]

well funny enough, it used to work when the PC monitor was plugged in and Arcade Monitor running as secondary monitor (clone mode/theater).  
but i dont want a PC monitor in my cabinet..

Windows Resulutions i've tried 640x480 800x640 1024x768 and even 320x200.
i guess video files are around 320x200, 480x300.. not sure but ive tried lots of different files and types.

this is an example,
what i dont see:


but see this only:

[Goz]

I've got the same prob with video playback. I have tried additional resolutions including ones in the 288 and 320 range. WG monitor with ArcadeVGA card on XP. I've tried media player, zoom, multiple DVDPlayers,etc. I've tried video files encoded at different resolutions (320x200, 640 x 480) and multiple codecs (DivX, XVID, MPEG1, MPEG2) all with the same result. I just chalked it up as a driver glitch and never really worried about it, but it would be nice to find an official cause and resolution.

Has anyone asked Andy?

-Goz

[2600]

Don't quote me on this, but I think this may be the same bug that daphne had a one point.

The fix is to move the hardware acceleration down one notch.
If you don't know where that is read below:
There's a milliona ways to get here, here's one:

Right click on your desktop
Click on Properties
Click on  Settings Tab
Click on Advanced (Bottom Right)
Click on Troubleshooting Tab
Move the Hardware Acceleration slider down one notch.
You may have to reboot.  I would reboot just in case.

This is from memory, but it should be right.  Let us know if it works, can't test it right now.

[Minwah]

Don't quote me on this, but I think this may be the same bug that daphne had a one point.

The fix is to move the hardware acceleration down one notch.
If you don't know where that is read below:
There's a milliona ways to get here, here's one:

Right click on your desktop
Click on Properties
Click on  Settings Tab
Click on Advanced (Bottom Right)
Click on Troubleshooting Tab
Move the Hardware Acceleration slider down one notch.
You may have to reboot.  I would reboot just in case.

This is from memory, but it should be right.  Let us know if it works, can't test it right now.

I think this is correct...if it doesn't work try disabling hardware acceleration altogether.

[Zombie]

turning down hardware acceleration did the trick.
all ok now. thanks!!

[Zombie]

well almost,
now it wont display low res/non interlaced resolutions with the lowered Hardware Accelration.

nothing to do, guess i might install WinXP for playing Video files only and keep the existing Win98 for Arcade. Dual OS is allways nice in case one of them craps out.

guess this card is meant only for Arcade/MAME and does a great job for sure!!.
would be nice with a fix though, maybe in new drivers somthing.

[Howard_Casto]

Upgrade to xp, 98 is not media friendly and you shouldn't be using it at this point.  Your problem involves the ati drivers... the 7000 came out when xp was established and therefore all ati hardware and software beyond that point favors xp.  You will continue to have various problems with certain directx and directshow (what renders video) applications until you upgrade.