movies on TV monitor

[suhoi]

Hi guys,
I have an issue I cannot understand. I use my LCD as monitor via SVGA cable and sometimes the movie I play on the monitor cannot be watched (I can only see the frame of the player and everything black inside, like a static image, instead of movie itself), though it's playing at the same time on my laptop nicely. Anyone experienced something like this? Any codec needed???


Many thanks for any feedback.

Suhoi

[Baldrick]

Overlay problem, the video is played back using hardware acceleration and it is only enable for the laptop monitor. Set the tv/video-output to the primary monitor and it should work.

If you have an ati card you can enable theatre mode also, see http://www.sleepytom.co.uk/tvout

If you have nvidia card see http://www.weethet.nl/english/video_pc2tv_nvidia.php

[guns1inger]

Sounds like an overlay problem. Next time this happens, try turning off hardware acceleration for your gfx card to see if it fixes the problem. To do this, right-click on your laptop's desktop and select Properties. Click on the Settings tab, then the Advanced button. Next, click on the Troubleshoot tab, and drag the Hardware acceleration slider all the way left to None. Click OK, then OK, and try playing the video again.

If this works, watch you video, then put the slider back, as have no hardware acceleration may well slow or break other programs.