What does video overlay do?

[pagemap]

My dual monitor setup gets all jacked up when video overlay is turned on within windows media player.

Will I sacrifice video quality if I watch divx with video overlay turned off?

[missyusa]

Originally posted by pagemap
My dual monitor setup gets all jacked up when video overlay is turned on within windows media player.

Will I sacrifice video quality if I watch divx with video overlay turned off?

Per webopedia: video overlay
The placement of a full-motion video window on the display screen. There are various techniques used to display video on a computer's screen, depending on whether the video source has been digitized or is still in analog NTSC format.
Since computer monitors are generally analog, NTSC video can be merged with signals coming from the video adapter. Increasingly, faster computer buses (PCI, VL-bus, etc.) and faster video busses (Advanced Feature Connector, VM Channel, etc.), allow for analog video to be digitized and stored with other binary data for output. Then the video adapter turns it into analog scan lines for the monitor.

Try this url:
http://www.adtworld.com/visual.html

they have an email address perhaps you can ask them for more info.
Hope that helps you..
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