How to Get to Streaming DivX on my PC to Appear on my HDTV?

[Jon44]

I use an older laptop to stream DivX movies--I coonected my HDTV with a VGA cable and the box that is showing the DivX content shows up just fine on the PC's Screen, but shows blank on the HDTV. All other content from the PC shows up fine on the HDTV (Netflix streams, flash-based content).

Any suggestions to fix this would be appreciated

(I'm particularly confused why the HDTV doesn't just show the same thing that's on the laptop screen)

Thanks,

Jon

[Baldrick]

It sounds like a video overlay issue((see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_overlay ). So try change the hdtv monitor to the primary monitor in windows display options and you should then get video on the hdtv but not on the laptop screen.

And it's just your divx video that uses video overlay, the other flash video does not use it.

[Jon44]

Thx for the reply.

I tried to do this, but the HDTV is not showing up as a separate monitor (when i chose "Identify," both laptop and HDTV displayed a #1)

[guns1inger]

What OS are you running ?

[Jon44]

Windows XP, SP3

[guns1inger]

You can turn the Overlay off by turning down the hardware assist under troubleshooting in the display settings

[Jon44]

You can turn the Overlay off by turning down the hardware assist under troubleshooting in the display settings

This did the trick.

Would you expect lower video quality? (it appears that way to me) It's running on a 5 yr old laptop with a relatively slow processor..