cannot see movie when connecting laptop to hdtv

[aknish]

i recently purchased a cable to connect my laptop to my hdtv.
it was working perfectly fine and then 1 fine day i don't know what happened to it.

now i am able to view all possible windows except for Windows Media Player when i watch movies. i can see the movie on my laptop but its a blank screen on my tv. i can even see the frame(outline) of the media player but i cannot see the movie

can u pls help me out?

thank you

[redwudz]

That sounds like your video overlay settings are messed up. Check your video card settings for adjustments. You might try lowering your video acceleration (In 'Troubleshoot') there to see if that helps, though the playback may suffer. Or try a player like VLC that may let you turn overlay off and on.

[aknish]

hey thanks a lot for replying and can you please tell me where do i find video over lay as iam not much in to computers so if you can please reply me with instructions for dummies and i would really appreciate it, and you wont believe that i thought there is a problem in my laptop and i formated my laptop and as well reinstall my windows xp service pack 2. I do have vlc player and it works sometime but whenever i wanna see movie online its always uploaded on Windows media player and i cant see them and iam very upset as i purchase such an expensive tv for this particular activity please help and thanks a lot

[redwudz]

Try: 'Control Panel>Display>Settings'. You should see a page similar to this:



The second smaller monitor is my TV, which is not hooked up at present. Click on that one and you should see the settings there. You might try lowering the resolution to 640 X 480 True color @ 60hz and see if that works. If so, try some higher settings. Also make sure when you are trying all this that the TV is hooked up and set to play the video. I assume you have 'Extend my Windows desktop to this monitor' checked and you can see your desktop on the TV.

If no help, go to 'Control Panel>Display>Settings>Advanced>Troubleshoot'. Lower 'Hardware Acceleration' to about 1/3 and try it. If that helps, move it back to full and select your video control tab. They are named different, depending on your video card brand. From there it depends on your video card and you may have to consult your manual for your video card to see what type of overlay adjustments are available.

In VLC player, 'Settings>Preferences>Video' and change the 'Overlay video output' by checking or unchecking it, then try playing a video. You may also find WMP will work if you open a second instance of it. Somehow that changes it's overlay settings. Another trick that sometimes works is to play the video on your laptop screen, then drag it across to the TV screen.

I've managed to get my overlay settings so messed up that I had to reinstall the video card drivers. But once you get the right combination, write it down.

[aknish]

hey thanks a lot it really helped me and its working absoulately gr8 and thanks a billion to you, but i have one more problem that is the cable which is connected to my laptop goes to one of the plug which has 15 pins and by mistake i pulled it and now the connection has gone loose. Is there any way i can fix it thanks a lot