not showing full screen in full screen mode

I have watched many movies on my laptop but they suddenly do not fill the
screen in full screen mode. They used to. Now in full screen mode there is an
1 1/2 " border around the entire video. My screen is small enough as it is
and I want to use it all! Any suggestions?

Using media player 11 on win XP

What changed... ? Did you install any third party drivers or multimedia
software... ?

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"Connie" <Connie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2725AE29-71F0-451C-9ECB-9277D51D4F4D@microsoft.com...
>I have watched many movies on my laptop but they suddenly do not fill the
> screen in full screen mode. They used to. Now in full screen mode there is
> an
> 1 1/2 " border around the entire video. My screen is small enough as it is
> and I want to use it all! Any suggestions?
>
> Using media player 11 on win XP

I didn' think about that. I removed everything I could think of that I added
and now I am pretty sure I removed a codec that allows me to view certain
videos, but with the ones I can view there is no difference.

"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:

>
> What changed... ? Did you install any third party drivers or multimedia
> software... ?
>
> --
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> See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
> --
>
> "Connie" <Connie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:2725AE29-71F0-451C-9ECB-9277D51D4F4D@microsoft.com...
> >I have watched many movies on my laptop but they suddenly do not fill the
> > screen in full screen mode. They used to. Now in full screen mode there is
> > an
> > 1 1/2 " border around the entire video. My screen is small enough as it is
> > and I want to use it all! Any suggestions?
> >
> > Using media player 11 on win XP
>
>
>

Is this a wide screen laptop? What video card do you have?

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"Connie" <Connie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I didn' think about that. I removed everything I could think of that I
>added
> and now I am pretty sure I removed a codec that allows me to view certain
> videos, but with the ones I can view there is no difference.
>
> "zachd [MSFT]" wrote:
>
>>
>> What changed... ? Did you install any third party drivers or multimedia
>> software... ?
>>
>> --
>> Speaking for myself only.
>> See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
>> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
>> rights.
>> --
>>
>> "Connie" <Connie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:2725AE29-71F0-451C-9ECB-9277D51D4F4D@microsoft.com...
>> >I have watched many movies on my laptop but they suddenly do not fill
>> >the
>> > screen in full screen mode. They used to. Now in full screen mode there
>> > is
>> > an
>> > 1 1/2 " border around the entire video. My screen is small enough as it
>> > is
>> > and I want to use it all! Any suggestions?
>> >
>> > Using media player 11 on win XP
>>
>>
>>

[lassar]

I am a programmer.

I sent a person with a Vista OS ;two windows directx test programs that were supposed to go into fullscreen mode.

They would not goto into fullscreen. When he pressed Alt-enter they either went blank or black.


So the problem is Vista.

On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 01:06:43 +0530, lassar
<lassar.2zumvf@DoNotSpam.com> wrote:

>
>I am a programmer.


And I'm a web developer (congratulations) - you seem to have removed
all the context from this message, and it's not archived on my ISP's
news server. So - what are you replying to ?


>I sent a person with a Vista OS ;two windows directx test programs that
>were supposed to go into fullscreen mode.


They were supposed to ? Or they actually did ? What test conditions
did you use to establish this ? OS, Media Player version tested,
graphics settings, codec and file format seem to be missing from your
assertion.

>They would not goto into fullscreen. When he pressed Alt-enter they
>either went blank or black.


Is there some player skin installed on the Vista WMP11 ? Is the
graphics card configured to send fullscreen output to a secondary
display ? Does the video display when it's not in full screen ? Are
you using RDS or VNC on the PC when this happens ?


>So the problem is Vista.


Well, that's an absurd thing to assert unless you can provide
diagnostic information to demonstrate that vista "must" be the problem
rather than one of dozens of other things which can influence this
result, such as (for example) graphics card drivers or settings.

Cheers - Neil
------------------------------------------------
Digital Media MVP : 2004-2007
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs

Yet again Microsoft have messed up. I have been researching this problem now
for the best part of a week. The common theme here is that Media player
versions 9, 10 and 11, (there may be other versions that don't work), will no
longer play in full screen. On systems that used to have no problem at all it
just stopped working.... or did it. Not on your life. From what I have found
out it seems that this problem occurred following a Windows Update. Thanks
Microsoft! Daily I get hastled to supply Apple MAC computers by customers who
require a system that 'just works'. Mmmm I can see their point, but MACS are
not for me. The bugs in Microsoft software are bad enough without Microsoft
making it worse on virtually a daily basis by creating new faults. What
really gets my goat, though, is Microsoft ignoring the problems, hoping that
they will disappear and denigning all knowledge of them. Come on Microsoft
fix this problem, you know about it, you know which Windows Update created
the problem. Reverse engineer it and give us a fix. AND SO CALLED EXPERTS ON
HERE STOP PANDERING TO MICROSOFT AND BUYING THEM TIME BY WASTING OURS.

R. Worley - R.S. Computers..... Hacked off with yet another Microsft fiasco.

"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:

> On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 01:06:43 +0530, lassar
> <lassar.2zumvf@DoNotSpam.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >I am a programmer.
>
>
> And I'm a web developer (congratulations) - you seem to have removed
> all the context from this message, and it's not archived on my ISP's
> news server. So - what are you replying to ?
>
>
> >I sent a person with a Vista OS ;two windows directx test programs that
> >were supposed to go into fullscreen mode.
>
>
> They were supposed to ? Or they actually did ? What test conditions
> did you use to establish this ? OS, Media Player version tested,
> graphics settings, codec and file format seem to be missing from your
> assertion.
>
> >They would not goto into fullscreen. When he pressed Alt-enter they
> >either went blank or black.
>
>
> Is there some player skin installed on the Vista WMP11 ? Is the
> graphics card configured to send fullscreen output to a secondary
> display ? Does the video display when it's not in full screen ? Are
> you using RDS or VNC on the PC when this happens ?
>
>
> >So the problem is Vista.
>
>
> Well, that's an absurd thing to assert unless you can provide
> diagnostic information to demonstrate that vista "must" be the problem
> rather than one of dozens of other things which can influence this
> result, such as (for example) graphics card drivers or settings.
>
> Cheers - Neil
> ------------------------------------------------
> Digital Media MVP : 2004-2007
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs
>

What's the commonality that you expect to reproduce this issue?

Not showing video in full screen mode is almost certainly a video driver
based problem. These types of problems have been going on with drivers for
years. You're less frustrated with drivers than I am. Scr*w pandering,
let's make this work. You make it work by correctly identifying the source
of failure. If it's a problem in WMP, what's the repro? But I'd
suspect/bet it's the driver, as it has been in 99.9% of the time in this
situation before.

A closed system with closed drivers not having driver problems is not a huge
surprise. Microsoft kind of gives you a lot more power, but as Spiderman
says, with power comes responsibility. =\

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"RSWorley" <RSWorley@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4DEF4348-FF26-426D-A992-8E4DA2E46856@microsoft.com...
> Yet again Microsoft have messed up. I have been researching this problem
> now
> for the best part of a week. The common theme here is that Media player
> versions 9, 10 and 11, (there may be other versions that don't work), will
> no
> longer play in full screen. On systems that used to have no problem at all
> it
> just stopped working.... or did it. Not on your life. From what I have
> found
> out it seems that this problem occurred following a Windows Update. Thanks
> Microsoft! Daily I get hastled to supply Apple MAC computers by customers
> who
> require a system that 'just works'. Mmmm I can see their point, but MACS
> are
> not for me. The bugs in Microsoft software are bad enough without
> Microsoft
> making it worse on virtually a daily basis by creating new faults. What
> really gets my goat, though, is Microsoft ignoring the problems, hoping
> that
> they will disappear and denigning all knowledge of them. Come on Microsoft
> fix this problem, you know about it, you know which Windows Update created
> the problem. Reverse engineer it and give us a fix. AND SO CALLED EXPERTS
> ON
> HERE STOP PANDERING TO MICROSOFT AND BUYING THEM TIME BY WASTING OURS.
>
> R. Worley - R.S. Computers..... Hacked off with yet another Microsft
> fiasco.
>
> "Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 01:06:43 +0530, lassar
>> <lassar.2zumvf@DoNotSpam.com> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >I am a programmer.
>>
>>
>> And I'm a web developer (congratulations) - you seem to have removed
>> all the context from this message, and it's not archived on my ISP's
>> news server. So - what are you replying to ?
>>
>>
>> >I sent a person with a Vista OS ;two windows directx test programs that
>> >were supposed to go into fullscreen mode.
>>
>>
>> They were supposed to ? Or they actually did ? What test conditions
>> did you use to establish this ? OS, Media Player version tested,
>> graphics settings, codec and file format seem to be missing from your
>> assertion.
>>
>> >They would not goto into fullscreen. When he pressed Alt-enter they
>> >either went blank or black.
>>
>>
>> Is there some player skin installed on the Vista WMP11 ? Is the
>> graphics card configured to send fullscreen output to a secondary
>> display ? Does the video display when it's not in full screen ? Are
>> you using RDS or VNC on the PC when this happens ?
>>
>>
>> >So the problem is Vista.
>>
>>
>> Well, that's an absurd thing to assert unless you can provide
>> diagnostic information to demonstrate that vista "must" be the problem
>> rather than one of dozens of other things which can influence this
>> result, such as (for example) graphics card drivers or settings.
>>
>> Cheers - Neil
>> ------------------------------------------------
>> Digital Media MVP : 2004-2007
>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs
>>