No Full-screen

[samsamsam]

I've currently got a problem where whenever I play a movie in any player, the actual display of the movie only takes up the bottom left corner of the screen are (e.g. In fulscreen the movie is displayed in only a quarter of the screen, in normal mode the movie takes up the corner of the screen box. I've tried loads of movies and they start OK for a couple of seconds then shrink. This included new movies and old ones which previously played OK). I've got the current KLCodecs and a variety of players incl. BS (where movies are inverted!?!). There was nothing I installed / uninstalled etc.. which coincided with this.

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[shn]

Can you try to be a little more decisive in regard to what media players your actually using then maybe we could help you better.

Or it could be a problem with your video card or your screen resolution setting.

[samsamsam]

BS PLayer, Windows Media Player, RealOne Player, Ultra player.

The strange thing is it's Ok some of the time then just shrinks. The rest of the screen is fine - i can have the players fill the screen or in a box yet the actual part of the screen supposed to display the movie is only utilising the lower left quarter. I've messed about with '100%, 200%', 'full-screen' etcc.... adn resize to 'fill screen on opening' etc.. When I've figured out how post a screendump I'll post it.

Anything else I use is fine - just movies and then not consistantly.

[Wolfmight]

what graphics card do u use? did u try updateing it?

[samsamsam]

3D Blaster® 4 MX420

I updated it about a year ago

[samsamsam]

Here's screen dumps of what it looks like in 'fullscreen' then in the player window (I think the way I got a screendump was a bit messed which effected the quality of the pictures but the positioning is the same):

http://www.strike9.com/file.aspx?path=%2fSssaaammm%2ffullsize%2fc.jpg

http://www.strike9.com/file.aspx?path=%2fSssaaammm%2ffullsize%2fb.jpg

[balamm]

There's a setting in windows media player that does that. Something about "allow full screen resize" or something like that. Problem is, the menu changes and it's a bitch to find it again. I just looked again and it's not on mine(WMP9). It may be one of those first run menus or something.

[samsamsam]

Thanx, although.....
I've found that menu and even though that option is ticked it still happens :blink:
Initially, sometimes, the movie does resize but then a few seconds later shrinks again.


Edit: I've tried on loads of players (not just WMP9) and it's exactly the same effect.