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October 22nd, 2003, 12:39 AM
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| S-video out from laptop to TV
When I hook up my laptop to the TV with the S-video cable I get the laptop screen on the TV.
However, when I try to play a DVD I get the sound, the background of the lappie, the DVD player screen, but no video even though the video is playing on the laptop screen.
What am I doing wrong?
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October 22nd, 2003, 12:44 AM
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Hmmm, what is the video chipset your laptop has, also are you cloning the video. I think you may need to setup the tv as the primary display and open the video when it is on the tv and see if that helps.
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October 22nd, 2003, 12:58 AM
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Video is ATI 9000 and I switched to TV as display.
What I don't get is the player screen is working on the laptop but does not play on the TV. I get the player window but not the video.
Tried MOHAA and that works. 
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October 22nd, 2003, 02:15 AM
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October 22nd, 2003, 02:20 AM
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Video is ATI 9000 and I switched to TV as display.
| does that mean that it is "primary display". that is the only option on my GFmx440 that needed to be changed for video to work | 
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October 22nd, 2003, 02:35 AM
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Well I think it's differen't with ATI and Nvidia, my other computer has an ati radeon 7500 and this has a geforce 4 ti 4600.
With my radeon, I have no problem switching between them.
With the Geforce card I have to use the primary display to get video to work.
The ati also act's differently since I can even have the TV enabled and use it even when not in windows, however I usually leave it disabled. | |
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October 22nd, 2003, 02:49 AM
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Thanks for the suggestions. My son has the laptop at college right now.
We will check on output tomorrow.
Don't stop with the suggestions BTW!
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October 23rd, 2003, 12:55 PM
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Got it working.
Had to change display to NTFS on TV options.
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