dual monitor question

mobass1 wrote on 8/31/2009, 6:41 PM
When capturing vid from my JVC deck, the preview window goes black. It does capture video and audio just no preview on capture. I get playback video beautifully.
I discovered that when I move the capture window between my two monitors, I get the capture video preview. Move to one monitor....no capture preview.

Gear is: xp professional pro x64, dual core amd 2.3, 4 gigs ram, V9.0b

Does anyone have any ideas?

thanks
steve

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 8/31/2009, 7:35 PM
I have exactly the same thing, except exactly the opposite. If the preview window touches both monitors then it's black. If it's entirely within one or the other then i see the preview.

Sometimes, as i drag it across the gap, i'll still see preview in the part that's on the monitor it's coming from but black on the other part, but usually it all goes black.
John_Cline wrote on 8/31/2009, 8:31 PM
You gave all the relevant specs except what your video card is.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 9/1/2009, 5:15 AM
nvidia. Isn't that good enough? :D

I just tried it: ATI 3850, main monitor = DVI, second = SVGA hookups. I can have the Vidcap program open & move it between monitors w/o the preview ever going away.
mobass1 wrote on 9/3/2009, 6:18 PM
Hey everyone,
Thanks for posting on my thread, you guys rock.
My vid card is Nvidia Gforce 7900.
Really lame of me to leave that piece of the puzzle out...*S*

thank again,
stevereno
mobass1 wrote on 9/3/2009, 6:23 PM
Hi,

I've searched the entire internet for a solution to this freaky prob to no avail. I've joined forums; newsgroups;numerous digital video site forums; microsoft; of course sony and Nvidia.

My latest lead was to download the newest drivers from Nvidia for my card. I'll let you know how it turns out altho I have my doubts that this will solve my problem ( I'm kinda jaded now). Anywho, thanks for letting me know I'm not alone with this prob.

may the farce be with us....
steveo
TheHappyFriar wrote on 9/3/2009, 6:59 PM
you didn't leave it out... it was in your system profile which EVERYONE says EVERYONE should use so that we don't need to ask "what's your XXXXXXX". :D

John_Cline wrote on 9/3/2009, 10:57 PM
"you didn't leave it out... it was in your system profile which EVERYONE says EVERYONE should use so that we don't need to ask "what's your XXXXXXX"

Well darned if it wasn't. I never look at the profile because people usually don't fill it out or it's so outdated. I think mine probably says something about a 233 Mhz Pentium II.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 9/4/2009, 4:42 AM
no, it's not. I checked to see if there was a difference on my mine would work just fine & everybody else would have an issue of some sort.

It may have something to do with directX. XP64 may not have as a fully-fleshed out DX like XP 32 (which I have).