Video is messed up

Okay so here's the problem:

I just bought a larger CRT screen.
I got it used, but it doesn't look too old
But when I started up wmp11, and started to watch a homestarrunner cartoon, I could hear the audio but there was no video.

I tried a different file, but all my files in my video library are the same. I can hear the audio, theres no slowdowns or anything, but theres also no video.

I have all the right codecs, I even tried just about every single other free media player out there.

Everything is the same, theres no video, but the audio is just fine

I just tried my old monitor, and now theres no video on that one either

Please help! I don't think I can survive much longer without my Homestar Runner cartoons!!:cry

On a side note, I just noticed that suddenly I can't set 2 monitors independently anymore in the NVIDIA Control Panel. Theres just settings for horizontal, vertical, and clone. Maybe these two things are related somehow??:confused

 

Were you running dual monitors prior to buying that used CRT? After you bought the used CRT, did you connect it under a dual monitor configuration?

Do you run dual monitors off one video card or two cards?

Can you test that newly purchased, used CRT on another computer?

 

okay i just reinstalled the nvidia drivers and now i am running 2 monitors set independently. still cant play vids though

i'm running my 2 monitors off one video card, a Nvidia NX700LE (256MB, MSI Brand)

yes, I was running two monitors prior this, my old monitor and my tv via svideo connection and everything worked out dandy

oh and one more thing - flv and swf video work, and so does uncompressed avi but no video with any kind of compression or codecs used

im dual booting linux right now, and video works on there, so im pretty sure its a software problem

ill post back when i get the chance to test my new monitor on another computer

 

i switched monitors with another computer and the other monitor doesn't play video on my computer, but my monitor plays video fine on the other computer

 

Does your video card have two types of connectors for regular monitors, those connectors being D-Sub/VGA and DVI? Or, does it have two VGA or two DVI connectors? Since you could use your old monitor and your TV at the same time with your video card, try using the new monitor and your TV at the same time. And, use the other monitor connector, the one not used in your former dual "monitor" configuration, for this test? Does that work? If not, can you connect your new monitor the same port you had the old monitor connected to, and use it with your TV that way?

 

i doubt the monitor not displaying video is related to the monitor being faulty at all.
try changing the refresh rates on the screen between 50 & 75MHz.
It is def something faulty which is software related.

 

I believe he's verified the new monitor works. He tested it on another computer. That's what he was saying here:

 

Eh, I think this could be a hardware issue, the hardware problem being his video card, not the monitor. That was the crux of one of my previous posts, where I asked him to try the new monitor in combination with TV he had been using as a second monitor, attached to the S-video port on the video card.

I'm thinking his video card is balking at supporting two monitors on the two regular monitor ports, i.e. not the S-video port.

 

okay my video card has:
1x DVI port
1x S-video port
1x D-sub port

and thats it for connections

okay the tv and the new monitor still don't play video, i'm gonna try restarting my computer and just having the tv connected and seeing how that works.

as before, ubuntu linux plays video, so im sure its a software, not hardware problem.

 

okay I got video working BUT:

whenever i restart my computer i need to set it so that only the tv is enabled because when i restart my computer and both the tv and one monitor are enabled in any way video does not work... but when i restart my computer w/ just the tv enabled and then i enable a monitor video still works

i can live with doing this every time i restart my computer (since i restart it about once a month on average)


thanks for all your help peoples

 

I thought your objective was to be able to use two regular computer monitors, not one monitor and the TV as another monitor.

 

no my objective was to be able to watch video