TV out not displaying videos

[TurboMike]

ATI Radeon 7500 AIW When I enable TV out everything shows on my TV screen except any of my videos. I've tried with Ulead 6 and Window Media. Any ideas>?

[cooel]

I had the same problem with my AIW 128 Pro card. The way to resolve this is to disable hardware acceleration in your video card driver, under advanced. Let me know please what your quality is like, mine is a joke.

[Prospero424]

Have you tried using the "Theater" overlay option under the advanced options dialogue? I've had this problem as well, and using the Theater overlay turned out to be the best option for me anyway since can record a movie full-screen on the TV while surfing the net on the monitor, without using an extended desktop, just cloning the primary display. Let me know if you need more detailed information or if this option will not work for you and we'll try to come up with something else besides makiong sure your drivers are up to date (hint hint)

Good Luck,

Prospero

[TurboMike]

exactly where it the "theater" overlay option?

[Prospero424]

First make sure your drivers are up to date. Then open the display options dialogue, click on the "settings" tab (this is where you adjust your display's color depth and resolution) then click on the "advanced" button. After the advanced window comes up, click on the "Overlay" tab and look for either the Theater mode option, or a button at the bottom called "clone mode options" (depends on which version of the drivers you have) This is where you will find the clone mode overlay options such as Theater mode.

Let me know what you find,

Prospero

[TurboMike]

ok, all it says is THX and then overlay buttons brightness, gamma, etc but all the buttons are greyed out. nothing like what you described.

[Prospero424]

Well, if you have the latest catalyst drivers installed and it's still not there, I guess the 7500 doesn't support that option, I sure thought that it did though.

hmmm

[TurboMike]

My drivers were fairly new, but i went ahead and downloaded the newest. It's not there. Any other ideas?

[Prospero424]

Well, sometimes Media Player doesn't handle the TV-out rendering properly and I don't know much about Ulead, but I would try another player like WinDVD or if you don't want to pay for a player, Zoom Player 3 does a great job handling the TV-out on my Radeon 8500 and is free, as is BSplayer, which others have recommended to me..

There's no doubt that this card is CAPABLE of diplaying videos on your TV, and since you have already reinstalled the drivers (alhtough you might try completely removing them from your system; registry entries, files in Windows system folders, etc., I have attached Rage3d's guide to doing this at the end of my response) we know that this isn't disabling the ability. It has to be either the player or the specific TV display prosperties you that you have chosen. You might want to just mess around with the display settings of the TV in the ATi control panel, such as clone modes and extending the desktop onto the TV rather than just cloning the monitor, download Hydravision from ATi if you want a way to change these settings more intuitively.


Prospero




1. Go into the Control Panel and under the ADD/REMOVE SOFTWARE icon uninstall the ATI MultiMedia software and/or the ATI DVD software.

2. Uninstall the ATI drivers also found in the Add/Remove section. Once removed, it will prompt you to reboot....do so.

3. When returning to windows, the NEW HARDWARE FOUND wizard will come up and will tell you that it has found a new VGA card and will prompt you for drivers. Hit CANCEL!

4. Now, go to START - SEARCH - FOR FILES OR FOLDERS and do a search for all files and folders using the filename ati*.*
This search will normally give you 3 to 4 files found in your c:/windows directory and subdirectories (including the Windows/System directory). Select these files and erase them. Now go to your Recycle Bin and Empty your bin.

5. Next...time to go to your Registry. Go to START -- RUN -- regedit

Here go to key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -- SYSTEM -- ControlSet001 -- Control -- Video . Here there should be 4 entries. 3 of them are default Windows XP entries and the 4th one is put in by the ATI drivers. Expand each one by one until you see ATI entries. Once found, erase the entire key.

Now repeat the same step above for the ControlSet002 key and the CurrentControlSet Key. Normally, whenever you erase a key in the ControlSet001, XP automatically deletes it in the CurrentControlSet section too. So if the ATI key is not found in the CurrentControlSet section, don't worry about it.
Once all keys are deleted, proceed to the next step.

6. While still in the registry, go to the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -- SOFTWARE section. Here you should find an ATI Technologies key. Select it and delete it. In that same section, look for an Installed Options key. Expand it and there you should find another ATI Technologies key. Select it and erase it.

7. Still in the registry, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER -- Software and there you should find another ATI technologies key. Select it and erase it. Once all this is done, close the registry. the registry is now clean.

8. Close all windows and reboot.

9. When in windows after the reboot the NEW HARDWARE FOUND WIZARD will pop up again. Cancel that. Now find the new ATI drivers that you have downloaded and extracted and run the SETUP file. Once complete, reboot and you are done. You may want to reinstall your ATI MMC software and DVD software if you use them. DONE!


For all those who do not like going into the registry and rather have an easy to use program to do it for you, you can grab a nifty tool called "RegCleaner" here and it will do it for you without getting your hands dirty in the registry. Follow steps 1 through 4 as stated above, then run RegCleaner to do the rest. Once completed, follow steps 8 and 9 and you are DONE!

[Raen]

The easiest way to solve this problem is to make the TV and monitor both primary display devices. Right click desktop--> Properties-->Settings tab--->advanced button --> display. See if it lets you make the monitor AND TV primary(my AIW 7500 does) or try just making the TV primary and it will display the movie

[yomady]

First make sure your drivers are up to date. Then open the display options dialogue, click on the "settings" tab (this is where you adjust your display's color depth and resolution) then click on the "advanced" button. After the advanced window comes up, click on the "Overlay" tab and look for either the Theater mode option, or a button at the bottom called "clone mode options" (depends on which version of the drivers you have) This is where you will find the clone mode overlay options such as Theater mode.

Let me know what you find,

Prospero

Many many thanks .. it works with the 8500dv