Hi guys, Now Im a noob when it comes to all this film malarky and was wondering if you could help me with the following problem.

I have hooked my laptop up to my TV thru the S-video lead. I get my windows desktop showing on my TV and everything seems OK.

Ive downlaoded Red Dragon Xvid AVI file, and played it thru windows media player on the laptop. The film plays fine on the laptop, yet the display on my tv shows the media player interface, but a black area where the film should be.

Can anyone please help me with this as this is the first time ive tried doing this.

many thanks