TV Tuner and a Pink Screen

[Andrej Kralj]

Could somebody please help me with this one? I have a Conference TV tuner
that worked fine when I had Voodoo in my computer. Now I have CL GeForce SDR
and when I start program for viewing channels JTV (The besto proggy on the
world) I see only Pink screen but I can hear the sound from TV. All I have
to do to fix it is switch from full screen to windowed a couple of times. I
went to the site of of this program. http://www.chat.ru/~jtvhost/ or
museums.karelia.ru/jtvrus and read something about OverlayMode. I cant
understand Russian but I think I have to swith from Overlay to don't know
what. Does anyone where could I do this. If I change it in the program I
can't get bigger picture that 720x???. I am curently using the latest
Creative Labs Drivers.

Thanks

Andrej Kralj

[William Ball [Creative Labs]]

Read this repost:

For those of you with TNT family/GeForce cards experiencing problems with
video overlay as used by TV cards (such as the Hauppauge WinTV, STB TV, ATI
TV Wonder) with any of the 3-series drivers, please try the following fixes
as proposed by NVIDIA.

Open the Display properties. Go to Settings, Advanced,
GeForce/TNT/TNT2/TNT2Ultra, Additional Properties, Overlay Color Control.
You can make adjustments or just hit the Default button and hit OK. Close
the Display properties. The point of this seemingly useless maneuver is
that it creates a registry key that you will need IF you have not opened the
Overlay Color Control sheet before. If you have, then just skip the above
step.

Run regedit and locate this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\Display\000#\NVID
IA\DirectDraw

Note: You may have several display entries numbered successively. Usually
the last one is the active one, but if you have several that refer to other
graphics cards no longer installed, you may want to delete them or run any
uninstall for those cards. If you have several referring to your current
card and can't figure out which is active, you may want to reboot into Safe
Mode, go into Device Manager and remove ALL display driver entries and
reboot to reinstall the drivers once.

Anyway, in the active DirectDraw key:
Create a new DWORD entry: VideoBusMasterMode
Give it a value of 1
Close regedit.
Reboot

Try the TV card application. NVIDIA says this fixes the ATI TV Wonder and
they believe it will fix the Hauppauge and other cards.

If not, run regedit again and look for this entry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\Display\000#\NVID
IA\DirectDraw\OverlayMode
Change the value for OverlayMode from 0 through 5, restarting the TV
application each time.

Let me know by email whether the above does or does not fix the video
overlay problem you are having. If not, tell me what the symptoms of the
problem are (I get pink color key screens sporadically, especially when I
try to switch to full-screen), which TV card you have, and any other
observations which may be helpful.

--
Bill Ball
Senior Technical Marketing Specialist
Graphics and Video Products
Creative Labs, Inc.

[Robert]

Bill,

I had a look in my display properties and in the blaster control panel....I
was unable to locate any section or tab that had "Overlay Color Control" or
anything similair. I checked my registry and did not find the key you
described. Could you help pointing me in the right direct for this setting
control? TY!

Robert

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