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    Movie issues over HDMI (HDTV) - Stealth Mode

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by DarthRyo, Aug 5, 2010.

  1. DarthRyo

    DarthRyo Notebook Geek

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    Hi all,

    So I went through a lot of pages here but I didn't find anything related, so here I go.

    I use my new m17x-R2 with a HDTV (Samsung) through a Sony Amp, all with HDMI. My desktop is displayed on the TV only, nothing special about it...
    but I have a weird issue which seems to be related with Stealth Mode:

    - with Stealth Mode disabled, my movies (all of them, mkv or avi) aren't playing well, with Zoom Player or PowerDVD => video and sound cuts all the time.
    - now that's the weird part, when I enable Stealth Mode, movies are back ok, playing as they should.

    When I'm on dual screen or extended, problem still exist but with less impact.
    I have absolutly no issues with blurays whatever the mode.

    So I don't understand why I have to enable Stealth Mode to play my movies fine over HDMI. Anyone encountered this??

    On a side note, I already went through all kind of reinstall, including a refactoring with DataSafe yesterday => the problem still exist.

    Of course since with Stealth Mode it works fine, that's ok, but still, I don't get it (when still mode is supposed to make the laptop less performant)... unless I'm missing something somewhere?

    Thanks for the help anyway ;)
     
    DarthRyo, Aug 5, 2010
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    DarthRyo Notebook Geek

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    It seems this issue doesn't ring bells to anybody.
    I tried more tests but got no clue about what would explain this...

    I also noticed that enabling or desabling CrossFire while connected on HDMI makes the HDMI Sound Card loose its supported formats (it is no longer able to output TrueHD, DD or DTS unless you reboot the whole stuff)... again, weird.
     
    DarthRyo, Aug 17, 2010
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    alexnvidia Notebook Deity

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    could be a driver problem from the way u described it. dell is working with ati to get an updated driver soon. so check back NBR more often.
     
    alexnvidia, Aug 17, 2010
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    Yeah, hopefully this could be corrected by a new driver version (hoping a stable one will get released as the beta one doesn't seem to be good yet) :)
     
    DarthRyo, Aug 17, 2010
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