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Question about streaming tv onto 2nd monitor

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At my University, the cable tv is run through the internet, meaning I have to use my computer to stream the tv service to my tv via vga cord. When I watch it on my computer monitor, it works beautifully, but when I drag the box over to the 2nd monitor (the TV) it gets all choppy and jittery every couple of seconds. However, if I watch movies or something local on my machine onto the TV, it plays fine.

Any ideas??

Thanks in advance
 
One question I have is "[your] tv is run through the Internet"? It doesn't stream through a coaxial cable? Are you using a TV tuner card?

Anyways back on topic...what kind of video card do you have and what kind of tv/monitors are you running on your computer? Some lower end cards (such as 8400GS for example) can run one monitor great, but if you try to run two video "feeds" such as your tv and a videogame at once, you will notice the choppiness and jitters. There's not enough video RAM to run both feeds at once. Now if you have a higher end card, just such as a 4000 series ATI card or 9000/200 series card, then I would recommend finding the newest driver for your card. Install it and see if that cures the problem.
 
Originally posted by: somethingsketchy
One question I have is "[your] tv is run through the Internet"? It doesn't stream through a coaxial cable? Are you using a TV tuner card?

Anyways back on topic...what kind of video card do you have and what kind of tv/monitors are you running on your computer? Some lower end cards (such as 8400GS for example) can run one monitor great, but if you try to run two video "feeds" such as your tv and a videogame at once, you will notice the choppiness and jitters. There's not enough video RAM to run both feeds at once. Now if you have a higher end card, just such as a 4000 series ATI card or 9000/200 series card, then I would recommend finding the newest driver for your card. Install it and see if that cures the problem.
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The video stream is ran through the internet, so essentially from a cat-5 cable. This is plugged into my laptop, which has an external "monitor" hooked up to it via vga, which is the TV. When I play video locally off the laptop, it runs fine on the TV, so I don't think my video card is the problem. Thanks for the advice though.

Any other ideas?
 
have you tried using the TV as the only monitor to see if that fixes the problem? or use clone mode. maybe your video player just doesn't handle switching monitor.
 
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