Re: [GD-General] API for enabling TV out ?

[Jason R. <jr...@im...>]

Hi Alec,

You're right - It is handled as another monitor in GDI. The worry is =
that
the graphics adaptor fails to detect the TV and no output appears. =20

The nView application has a "Force TV detection" checkbox which forces =
TV
out to be enabled.. I'd like to be able to 'check that box'
programmatically.. Struggling to find any way to do this though.. It =
looks
like I can set it in the registry but I suspect that will only be =
enacted
upon at startup..=20

The other issue that I discovered yesterday is that I need to give the =
user
control over whether the output is in PAL, NTSC, svideo, composite,
component etc.. Its not auto detecting the screen type correctly even =
when
it does detect a TV.

I had someone suggest investigating the Microsoft Media Centre =
Certification
programme. Apparently there's an API that the OEMs have to adhere to.=20

Thanks for your help !

Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: Alen Ladavac [mailto:ale...@cr...]=20
Sent: 21 August 2006 16:50
To: Jason Rennie
Cc: gam...@li...
Subject: Re: [GD-General] API for enabling TV out ?

> Is there a way to  enable TV out without using the nView application =
?=20
> Is there a=A0API for this  kind of thing ? Is it maybe included in=20
> DirectX and I've just not found it in  the docs ?

Isn't this a multi-monitor issue in fact? How is enabling the TV =
different
than enabling a second monitor? I don't have the mm code at hand, but I =
have
a "disable the second monitor" code snippet at work.
I can send it over to you tomorrow, if that will do. But it is =
Win32-only,
of course. Not sure if gd-general is exactly the right list for this...

Cheers,
Alen


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