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Video mirroring bug on dual screen systems, and a workaround

 

System: Vista 64-Bit SP2;

Monitors: 2 23’’ LCD screens, side-by-side in portrait mode, with Windows extended to secondary screen.

Video Card: Nvidia 9600GT

Driver Version: 8.17.12.5896 Microsoft windows hardware compatibility publisher

After downloading this driver from Windows Update, I noticed that when spanning a video window (observed in Windows Media Player and LC VideoLan; and codecs: MPEG-2, DivX 5.x/6.x, XviD ISO MPEG-4, H264), mirrors the image (wn Window mode; full screen mode unwilling to span both monitors anyway), like so: 

nvidia-split-screen-mirroring-bug

Moving the mouse pointer over the video image (player window is not sufficient), however, fixes the issue:

nvidia-split-screen-mirroring-bug2

A bit of a nuisance, but no newer driver has been released yet on Windows Update, so I decided to work around the issue like this .