Problems with S video out

[Finns14]

So I am using my laptop as a sort of HTPC and now is the first time I am connecting it to a TV. DVD's play great but any movies that I have DL's appear fine on the lcd but show up black on the TV. Thanks for the help.

 

[Finns14]

Update so its not just any certain tv because I have tried a few. MP4 seem to work but still no avi's. Right now I am using A/V cable to hook up it up to tvs you think a svideo cable would work? Any suggestion would be appciated.

 

[unfalliblekrutch]

go into your video card control panel.
If you have an ATI card, there is a panel with a few overlay and tv out settings. you want to use "secondary" monitor for video, or enable theaterview mode.
i'm not sure if you have nVidia

 

[Finns14]

I have ATI, let me try this quick and report back. I am not exactly sure where you mean, I know where to select TV but I am not sure about the other settings if you could be more specific that would be great in the mean time I will look around. Thanks

 

[Finns14]

WoW amazing one might even say orgasmic. Withing the settings for selecting the type of setup there were two buttons. I just tried one and now the videos show up on the TV. Thanks so much. Now if anyone could give me some advice on how to mess with the res that would be great. Everything looks fine on the laptop but when playing movies in full screen the movie gets chopped partialy.

 

[Finns14]

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[imported_goku]

I believe what you'll have to temporarily do is hook up your computer to your tv, either disable or make the TV your main monitor and then play back the video. That should allow you to play the video because I remember not getting video on both screens when trying to do something similar. It may have to do with the Direct Draw buffers or something other thing with direct X.