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Video Output???

post #1 of 6
3/16/03 at 12:26am
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When I try to play ANY video format on an external screen (monitor or TV) the media player window is black. I see the rest of my desktop though. Is there some hidden feature I need to turn on? The result is the same for all my media players (Windows media player, DIVX The Playa, and WinDVD); working audio, everything else on desktop visible, but black viewing window.
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post #2 of 6
3/16/03 at 1:43am

Re: Video Output???

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Originally posted by arcangel
When I try to play ANY video format on an external screen (monitor or TV) the media player window is black. I see the rest of my desktop though. Is there some hidden feature I need to turn on? The result is the same for all my media players (Windows media player, DIVX The Playa, and WinDVD); working audio, everything else on desktop visible, but black viewing window.
Yes.

BUMP.

There is a simple solution for this (there is something to click on, in otherwords).

I am not sure where the thread is, but you can SEARCH for it.

Hope this helps.
-myrkat

EDIT:
OK, so I went and found it for you: here it is
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post #3 of 6
3/16/03 at 3:19pm
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Actually, I did some tweaking and found a solution.
I need to either enable extended desktop mode and drag the viewing screen unto the monitor/TV or set the external device as my primary dsiplay device. This may be done by going to video properties (via control panel or by Rt click on desktop->settings), going to settings tab, clicking advanced button, and clicking the left blue button under the display you want as the primary (make sure you enable both first). Now I can watch DVDs, Divx, mpg clips, etc on ANY media player on an external screen; I can even watch THREE different vids at the same time (one on LCD one on each external) by extending my desktop to both monitor and TV and dragging separate viewing screens to each!
Hope this helps anyone else too...
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post #4 of 6
3/17/03 at 12:32am
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Originally posted by arcangel
Actually, I did some tweaking and found a solution.
I need to either enable extended desktop mode and drag the viewing screen unto the monitor/TV or set the external device as my primary dsiplay device. This may be done by going to video properties (via control panel or by Rt click on desktop->settings), going to settings tab, clicking advanced button, and clicking the left blue button under the display you want as the primary (make sure you enable both first). Now I can watch DVDs, Divx, mpg clips, etc on ANY media player on an external screen; I can even watch THREE different vids at the same time (one on LCD one on each external) by extending my desktop to both monitor and TV and dragging separate viewing screens to each!
Hope this helps anyone else too...
I think that's basically what they did in that other thread, too. Still very good info here and there.

-myrkat
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post #5 of 6
3/17/03 at 1:41am
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Actually, the tread you linked to did not have any solutions, just some info about Macrovision copyright protection. But thanks for the help anyway!
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post #6 of 6
3/18/03 at 7:12am
I just enable the TV display from the control panel (as the primary device), and the video plays on the TV.

I also noticed once when I rebooted with the s-video plugged into the TV, the laptop booted up (in 1024x768) able to display both at once.
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