avit with tv out?

[air360]

hi, i have just hooked up my laptop to my tv using a S-video cable output from my laptop to my vcr (converted to composit because my tv dosent have s-video) and i am able to get everything working except when i try and play a .avi or mpg file i have downloaded off the net...i have tried multiple programs to get it to play and none work...all i get is a black screen where the movie is suppose to be....i can get everything else working (like time of movie playing and status of it) but not picture ..just blackness...i was thinking it could be macrovision but i got this off the net...so after all those conversions i dont think it would have macrovision protection...i have a s-video output on my laptop as a default option, so i dont have a hollywood or ati card or anything like that....and i dont have a Nvidia card so i cant use tvtool...any help would be appreciated..thanks
Jesse

[Tbear]

Does the screen on laptop show anything? Is this a DivX file with an avi extention? If it's a DivX file you will need the right codec for it to play.

[air360]

yes, it is a divx....but i can play the file on my computer.....it is only when i play it on the tv......i can have a "dual moniter" where i can see my computer both on my normal screen and the tv screen at the same time....and i can play the movie and see it on the laptop..but not the tv....now dont misunderstand me....i can see EVERYTHING on the tv...EXCEPT for the actualy picture of the move...so i dont think it is a codec problem when i can play it on my computer to begin with...thanks for the response though

[Mirror_Image]

You might have to go "full-screen" with the TV display. Not positive, but if it doesn't work in overlay mode, it's worth a try.

[air360]

ok..update.....i can play it with (out of all things) Real Player......but nothing else will play my video(divx)....no dvd player software or windows media or anything....on real player....why is that>?