TV-Out Troubles.. (kinda bizarre)?

[JoshGuru7]

<P dir=ltr>Basically, TV-Out works perfectly for me until I try to play visual media (like .avi files). At that point, both the TV and the Monitor show identical screens except where the monitor shows moving video the TV shows a flat black screen. The rest of the screen is accurately depicted on both TV and Monitor (border on Windows Media player, mouse cursor for example) but just the actual video is showing up black on the TV.

Any ideas?

<U>The Players:
</U>Video Card - ATI 7500 AIW
Video cable going from video out (video card) to video in (VCR)

Incidentally even if you don't know why the TV and Monitor would show differing images in THIS case maybe you could explain why they can show seperate pictures. I had thought what I would see on the TV would just be a duplicate of what I would see on my monitor, but this is obviously not that case. Any info there?

Thanks in advance,
Josh

 

[rbV5]

What OS are you using?

In XP, I use Theater Mode(enabled in the overlay panel) with overscan enabled for video viewing, this allows you to have full screen TV-out with video files and your desktop free for a workspace. Going TV-out>VCR>TV will cause problems with macrovision..but that doesn't sound like your problem...also, timeshifting must be enabled to watch TV broadcast via TV-out.
You may need to make the TV your primary display for the overlay to work.

 

[Auric]

Seems like an overlay problem. It is displayed independently of the rest. Try a different player or changing its settings or those of the codec. The TV should not have to be Primary. I have my 8500 CRT set to Primary and Cloned to TV. I also use Theater Mode Overlay. Generally I use Media Player Classic which is, erm, similar to WMP 6.4 and mostly watch MPEG-4 movies using DivX 5 decoder/filter. It has options to enable Hardware Overlay and a few others (all should be enabled for maximum performance and quality). Macrovision will only kick in when output to VCR if the content is flagged for it, such as DVD. A common AVI would not be.