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post #1 of 13
7/13/06 at 4:21am
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hey guys, i hooked up my computer to the rear of the tv. this was done through s-video (the s-video port from computer, and the video cable(yellow) to tv). i can get the desktop up, but when i go to watch a dvd, the picture is on the screen, but not on the tv screen>? likw i can see / hear everything, except for the dvd video, why is this?
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post #2 of 13
7/13/06 at 5:09am
It's your graphics card. To get the video on TV, you must disable the LCD screen output, so that the display is only on the television (prolly pressing Fn-F4 or something like that). Or if your graphics card supports it, you can put the TV as secondary display in a dual display mode.
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post #3 of 13
7/13/06 at 5:51am
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hi, yea i made the tv, seocndary!!!!, still no video;s will play, like i am using media player right, the taskbar, media player will dispaly, but instead of the movie, it shows a black screen, whilst on my laptop, screen, it shows the picture?
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post #4 of 13
7/13/06 at 12:05pm
i had a similar problem, it has something to do with the setting. i dont remember what it was and i dont have my laptop with me to look it up, but look around in the setting to the secondary display.
i think i ended up disableing the lcd on the laptop.
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post #5 of 13
7/13/06 at 8:32pm
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so let me get this right, u jsut turned off display on the LCD, and made the television PRIMARY, and the movie started playing??? LIKE i can get windwos desktop and everything up on the tv, cept when i play movies, the movie does not show up!!!
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post #6 of 13
7/13/06 at 8:35pm
There should be an option in your video card driver application for something like "theater mode". Mine is setup so that whatever video is playing on my computer (even minimized) shows up fullscreen on my tv it is really nice. If your video card does not support this then you could set the tv as your primary display while watching the video and then switch it back afterwards but that would be a bit of a hassle.
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post #7 of 13
7/13/06 at 8:37pm
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both our graphic cards, are built into the motherboard!
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post #8 of 13
7/13/06 at 8:38pm
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i tried this via my laptop, but i bought my father a new desktop, with a built-in GPU, and thats built into the motherboard, so yea
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post #9 of 13
7/13/06 at 9:10pm
Even if it its integrated your graphics card should still have some sort of application that controls its options. ATI cards have catalyst control center or whatever and I am sure others have something as well.
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post #10 of 13
7/13/06 at 11:30pm
Nvidia has a "fullscreen video" option. I have no idea about Intel. $5 says movies in Quicktime will work though.
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post #11 of 13
7/14/06 at 1:20am
This is a common problem using Windows Media player. It cant play a lot of formats in a secondary monitor. You can try a different media player or just change the TV to primary monitor.
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post #12 of 13
7/14/06 at 1:34am
Yuo'ze guyz, I personally have answered this question a dozen times. For the benefit of those too lazy to search,
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Originally Posted by olyteddy
Only one screen at a time can see overlay. Turn off acceleration in whatever DVD software you use and it will be fine.
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Originally Posted by olyteddy
Your Video out can't see overlay or accelerated video. Turn off acceleration in your video player and the picture portion of the pixmission will magically appear.
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post #13 of 13
7/14/06 at 1:43am
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nah, i tried all of thm, i now reliased, u have to make all resolutions 800 x 600, and it worked, cos tvs cannot handles fast refresh rate like monitors, even on this amssive wide screen plasma!!!!
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