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Re: CCTV camera on TV






Paul Gale wrote:

> That's correct Gordon,
>
> You may be able to get what you want though by disabling the overlay
surface and forcing the graphics card display drivers to render the video
surface in software. Matrox cards have this facility in the Powerdesk app
(use video overlay - disabled). I've used this to capture video windows
where they would normally be a black (or purple) screens.
>
> There may be a slight degradation in performance and/or video window
quality by disabling the video overlay although I can't say as I notice it.
>
> Other cards/drivers may or may not allow you to do the same.

The peformance slider in the display properties will allow you to disable
overlays, but the software may not operate without overlay support running.
I
know that DVD playback will not, even tho playing divx rips at the same
resolution via the software renderer works fine.


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