Power DVD , Objectdock, and Nvidia

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The newest Nvidia driver, 91.47, seems to break Powerdvd(and media player in full screen mode) when used with Object dock(full version). You get the sound, but no picture(moving when windowed shows the picture, but flickering). It seems like this problem occurred before, but was fixed by a new Nvidia release. Has anyone else had this problem? I've tried changing transparency, magnification, etc. in OD without success.
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Please, HELP! -- DVD Playback Problems

I have the same problem, I had WinDVD originally, and when trying to reproduce, it is only heard the audio one and the screen of the video in color purple. I opted to get PowerDVD... it Follows the same problem, although instead of purple, this it remains in black; so to be able to reproduce a DVD or VCD correctly, I have that shut down first ObjectDock. (Win XP SP-2, P4 1.7GHz, Ati 16Mb, 512Mb RAM). I wait there is somebody that knows about an answer...
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I can confirm the WMP issue. I never use WMP, so its not really a problem for me however. The issue still occurs without OD running... so it may not be the problem. PowerDVD works fine with and without OD running, so I'm not sure whats going on there. I just set up a quick tabbed dock to test, nothing elaborate.

My system is WinXP SP2, P4 3.6GHz, 1 GB Ram, Nvidia FX 5200, one monitor, and I was running just WMP/PowerDVD, OD and firefox.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Did you try this? :

Don't put any docks on the top edge or the left edge of your monitor. If you're running 2 monitors, don't put any docks on the top edge or the left edge of the primary monitor - putting them on the top edge or the left edge of the secondary monitor seems to be ok (except auto-hiding docks on the shared left/right edge of dual monitors "hide" by sliding over in a visible state to the other monitor on my system).

I know you said you tried "...etc" but I don't know if you tried this. I swear it solves my problems regarding conflicts with video software (WinDVD, ATI MMC). It's easy enough to try it. I hope it does the trick.

Oh, and an afterthought:

If you're running your display at High(32-bit) color depth, you might try backing that off to Medium(16-bit) depth. That was a bit of trivia I saw somewhere regarding dvd software trouble-shooting, not really an object dock thing. I know that's kind of reaching a little bit, but again it's easy enough to try.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I have the exact same problem as the original poster and can't find any permanenet solutions. I tried what the above post said but it didn't work. This happens with all nvidia drivers I use. I downgraded to 66.x nvidia drivers but I still have this problem. The only way to temporarily fix this is to close Objectdock and then open Powerdvd and load the file. This problem also happens with Media Player Classic also. It's really annoying