Don't Play on my TV

Remove nVidia Right-Click Menu Quickly

27 Jan 2007
nVidia drivers have an annoying feature where the context menu is hijacked to
display "Play on My TV" for several file types. The coolest part about this
feature is that I don't have a TV. I don't even have TV output. So when I
right click on an .avi, .mpg, etc the screen goes blank or flickers for a
second.
Actually it even happens when copying files in explorer with CTRL+C/CTRL+V as
well.
nVidia claims this is expected behavior and their remedy is to manually remove the
offending entries from the registry. I created some registry files to remove the
entries quicker since they get re-added every time you install new drivers.
So here ya go:
DontPlayOnMyTV.zip [ZIP File] | [Single Reg File]

The NVidia helper service may re-add these to the registry, I'm not sure. The
nvcpl.dll file may be causing this as well.
Source: http://www.geocities.com/fatboyberzerk/nvidia/index.html

-------------+ MORE:
Clicking on a video file
makes monitor go black

Luis ORTEGA
2004-11-16, 2:32 pm

I'm getting some really odd behaviour on my editing computer.

Whenever I right click on a video file (avi, mov, wmv, mpeg) on one of my
hard drives to play it, the monitor screen goes black for a second and then
comes back on. Sometimes, it doesn't go all black but it has a small
momentary partial black glitch, but more often it goes totally black for
about 1 second.
I have no unusual software on this machine. Just video and audio editing
related software. No internet or games or firewalls or virus checkers. It's
optimized for video editing.

The only software that has been installed in a while is the latest Avid
Xpress Pro 4.6 upgrade.
While trying to check on this problem, I noticed that device manager
reported a default monitor and when I tried to reinstall the inf files for
the monitor, windows failed to start after I restarted. I tried twice and
windows would go black after the xp logo screen after the bios screens. I
had to use last known good configuration to get back into windows.
I reinstalled the latest drivers for the video card and the monitor inf file
and it then worked ok. But all this happened after the original problems and
did not make any difference to the problem.
It's still going on. It happens all the time, whether I've been running
programs or right after a fresh start.
I have an MSI 128 mb Nvidia GeForce FX5700 ultra video card and an
Iiyama
Vision Master Pro 400 17" monitor set at 1024x768 at 32 bit colour and 85
refresh rate and am not using normal default settings in the options of the
video card. Windows Xp SP1 is installed with a P4 3 ghz cpu and 2 gig
ram.
There is Direct X 9c, Media Player 9, and quicktime 6.5 installed on the
system with the rest of the editing software.
Can anyone please offer some advice on what may be going on here?
Thanks a lot for any advice.
Michael C
2004-11-16, 2:32 pm

"Luis ORTEGA" <lortega@ntlworld.com> wrote in message

news:QLamd.165$j25.72@newsfe5-win.ntli.net...
> While trying to check on this problem, I noticed that device
manager
> reported a default monitor and when I tried to reinstall the inf
files for
> the monitor, windows failed to start after I restarted. I tried
twice and
> windows would go black after the xp logo screen after the bios
screens.
That's probably because it was running at too fast a refresh rate
for your
monitor. You can push f8 at startup and start in vga mode to fix
that.
> Can anyone please offer some advice on what may be going on
here?
All I can suggest is reinstalling directX
Michael

Mac Cool

Luis ORTEGA:

2004-11-16, 2:32 pm

> Whenever I right click on a video file (avi, mov, wmv, mpeg) on
one
> of my hard drives to play it, the monitor screen goes black for a
> second and then comes back on.
"I was also experiencing these annoying sync-problems. The cause
for
this lies in nvcpl.dll - a nvidia dll, which scans for connected TVs.
The first time the dll is loaded, is at windows-bootup
(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->SOFTWARE->Microsoft->Windows>CurrentVersion->Run).
This causes the first flicker and unfortunately the auto-startupentry
can't be deleted.
The flicker when right-clicking on video-files is caused by a shellextension, which the nvidia-driver installs for all types of videofiles. This shell-extension calls nvcpl.dll everytime you right click a
video file to scan for connected TVs. If a TV is present, the shell
extension shows up in the context-menu as "Play on My TV". I
never
tested this, but I suppose when you click it, the video is directly
shown on your connected TV.
This could have been implemented a lot better, this f...ing syncflicker
is driving you crazy when browsing a video archive.
After scanning the registry, I found the key responsible for the
shell
extension. Just search for "PlayOnMyTV" in the registry and you
will
find some entries under "shellex" (shell extension). These entries
contain an identifier, {FFB699E0-306A-11d3-8BD100104B6F7516} in my
case, I'm not sure if this identifier is static or created dynamically,
so in your registry, it might be another number. Now copy the
identifier
and search for it in the registry; delete every occurence when it's
connected to video-file formats (.avi, .mpg, .mpeg and so on) and
afterwards the "PlayOnMyTV"-shellextensions."
From http://www.techimo.com/forum/t117062.html
-Mac Cool

Spajky
2004-11-16, 2:32 pm

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 23:14:56 GMT, "Luis ORTEGA"

<lortega@ntlworld.com>
wrote:

>I'm getting some really odd behaviour on my editing computer.

>Whenever I right click on a video file (avi, mov, wmv, mpeg) on
one of my
>hard drives to play it, the monitor screen goes black for a second
and then
>comes back on. Sometimes, it doesn't go all black but it has a
small
>momentary partial black glitch, but more often it goes totally
black for
>about 1 second.
could be a nVidia driver problem with nvcpl.dll
REPOST from someone not so long ago:
>my monitor displays
>goes black (as though the video signal has stopped) randomly for
a few
>seconds and then comes back. Occasionally it is long enough for
the
>monitor to go into standby mode so fairly certain the signal is
>ceasing.
In fact, I've already disabled nvcpl.dll a long time ago, because it
was
causing unstability under Win98SE (ISTR) running Nero.
I took the opportunity to clean also other non desired programs.
& #91;HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Run-]
[...]
"OWCCardbusTray"="ocbtray.exe"
"WinFast Schedule"="E:\\My_Programs\\Multimedia\\WinFast
WFTVFM\\WFWIZ.exe"
"WinFoxV2"="E:\\WIN98\\SYSTEM\\WF2K.EXE"
"WinFast2KLoadDefault"="rundll32.exe
wf2kcpl.dll,DllLoadDefaultSettings"
"NvCplDaemon"="RUNDLL32.EXE
E:\\WIN98\\SYSTEM\\\\NVCpl.dll,NvStartup"
"nwiz"="nwiz.exe /install"
"nForce Tray Options"="sstray.exe /r"
Then I looked for the value you said (PlayOnMyTV). Unfortunately
it's
not in
my Registry.
I found two other occurrences of nvcpl.dll :
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{67E0E3C0-3068-11D3-8BD100104B6F7516}]
@="NVIDIA CPL EXTENSION"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{67E0E3C0-3068-11D3-8BD100104B6F7516}\InProcServer
32]

@="E:\\WIN98\\SYSTEM\\nvcpl.dll"
"ThreadingModel"="Apartment"
and
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\CLSID\{67E0E3C03068-11D3-8BD1-00104B6F
7516}]
@="NVIDIA CPL EXTENSION"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\CLSID\{67E0E3C03068-11D3-8BD1-00104B6F
7516}\InProcServer32]
@="E:\\WIN98\\SYSTEM\\nvcpl.dll"
"ThreadingModel"="Apartment"
>Dunno if this helps the diagnostic.
-Regards, SPAJKY
& visit my site @ http://www.spajky.vze.com
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Camdyn
2004-11-16, 2:32 pm

Maybe your computer's power supply is not enough to support

high power.
"Michael C" <mike@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:2vt9ghF2oi6j7U1@uni-berlin.de...
> "Luis ORTEGA" <lortega@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> news:QLamd.165$j25.72@newsfe5-win.ntli.net...
for[vbcol=seagreen]
and[vbcol=seagreen]
>
> That's probably because it was running at too fast a refresh rate
for your
> monitor. You can push f8 at startup and start in vga mode to fix
that.
>
>
> All I can suggest is reinstalling directX
>
> Michael
>
>

Luis ORTEGA
2004-11-16, 2:32 pm

Thanks for the very informative reply.

I also have another nvidia card, a GeForce fx 5200 128 mb on my
internet
computer which doesn't misbehave at all, yet the computer is a
general
purpose family computer loaded to the gills with all sorts of crap,
plus
broadband and firewalls and virus checkers and games. And it has
all the

same software as the editing computer as well.

The cards are from different manufacturers, but the computers are
very
similar in other respects such as motherboard, cpu, ram and
monitor brand.
Why do you think that the barebones editing computer monitor
would be
playing up when I right click on a video file while this other
computer is
rock solid?
Could the problem perhaps be in any way connected to a fault in
the monitor
itself or something else like a cable?
Thanks.
"Mac Cool" <Mac@2cool.com> wrote in message
news:Xns95A2EBBF328B6MacCool@24.25.9.43...
> Luis ORTEGA:
>
>
> "I was also experiencing these annoying sync-problems. The
cause for
> this lies in nvcpl.dll - a nvidia dll, which scans for connected TVs.
>
> The first time the dll is loaded, is at windows-bootup
> (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->SOFTWARE->Microsoft->Windows>CurrentVersion->Run).
> This causes the first flicker and unfortunately the auto-startupentry
> can't be deleted.
>
> The flicker when right-clicking on video-files is caused by a shell> extension, which the nvidia-driver installs for all types of video> files. This shell-extension calls nvcpl.dll everytime you right click
a
> video file to scan for connected TVs. If a TV is present, the shell
> extension shows up in the context-menu as "Play on My TV". I
never
> tested this, but I suppose when you click it, the video is directly
> shown on your connected TV.
>
> This could have been implemented a lot better, this f...ing syncflicker
> is driving you crazy when browsing a video archive.
>
> After scanning the registry, I found the key responsible for the
shell
> extension. Just search for "PlayOnMyTV" in the registry and you
will
> find some entries under "shellex" (shell extension). These
entries
> contain an identifier, {FFB699E0-306A-11d3-8BD100104B6F7516} in my
> case, I'm not sure if this identifier is static or created
dynamically,
> so in your registry, it might be another number. Now copy the
identifier
> and search for it in the registry; delete every occurence when
it's

> connected to video-file formats (.avi, .mpg, .mpeg and so on)

and
> afterwards the "PlayOnMyTV"-shellextensions."
>
> From http://www.techimo.com/forum/t117062.html
> -> Mac Cool

Mac Cool

Luis ORTEGA:

2004-11-17, 11:45 pm

> Why do you think that the barebones editing computer monitor
would be
> playing up when I right click on a video file while this other
> computer is rock solid?
I don't know. Each time I have had the problem it just started
happening.
It didn't seem to coincide with a new driver any other change, it
just
seemed to start out of the blue.
> Could the problem perhaps be in any way connected to a fault in
the
> monitor itself or something else like a cable?
That was my original thought, but changing monitors or cards
doesn't solve
the problem.
Glad to hear it worked for you.
-Mac Cool