Question
DVD/Video playback is poor
Answer
DoubleView does not support hardware acceleration (such as DirectX, OpenGL). Please transcode DVDs
into another video format (e.g. Divx, Avi) and watch it with a Video player application rather than
DVD player software.
If the frame rate should be too slow, please follow the
hints to speed up the secondary
display
DVD playback may only work if the player program allows you to disable the 'Overlay'-mode.
Please refer to the Player software documentation whether you can disable Overlay
If you see a black window in Windows Media Player, please disable any Video acceleration in
the Media Player Settings:
Media Player 7: Tools -> Options -> Performance.
Media Player v6.4 and below: View -> Options -> Playback.
In both cases slide the Hardware Acceleration slider to None.
If the colors are strange, set an identical color depth on both PC in the Windows display
properties dialog (Right-click your Windows desktop -> Select Properties -> click on the
Settings tab).
Generally you should prefer to play back video on the Primary display and extend static
windows on the Secondary screen. The to CPU/network load by DoubleView is linear to the amount of
changing content on the screen which is pretty high when playing video.
Windows Media player is known to have some technical issues. You may want to consider to try
an alternative video player such as Quicktime or Real Player which perform better when using
multiple monitors
Product: DoubleView
KB: 355
Last updated: Mar 22, 2006
