Weird TV Out Problem

[Hardtarget]

Hey guys. I can always trust the anandtech forumers to sort out my issues, i hope today's is no exception!

I just got a tv so I hooked up the TV-Out on the back of my Geforce 4 MX 440 to it. On the back of the card it is s-video then it goes to a s-video to rca adapter into a rca port on my tv. (this stuff was included with the card)

Everything works pretty good. I can see the desktop on the tv. if i play a quicktime movie it shows on the tv. If I play some splinter cell is shows on the tv. The main reason i hooked it up though was so i can play .avi and dvds on my tv. Unfortunately while they play fine on my computer (windows media player 9 and power dvd 5) they just show up as a black screen on my tv. either maximized or in a window it is just black. I have not been able to find a fix for this anywhere. I'm on WinXP Pro and i have the newest nvidia drivers. Any suggestions?

 

[jacktesterson]

Are they Divx movies?

 

[Hardtarget]

i've tried divx encoded files, normal .avi, .mpegs, all don't work. also the DVDs don't work when being played in powerdvd. its' very odd.

 

[ethebubbeth]

i had a similar problem with video files not displaying properly using tv out on my old ti4200... around the 32.xx line of drivers if i recall. i had to go back to an older revision of the drivers to solve my problem

 

[UncleWai]

I don't know the nvidia video properties, but look for enabling overlay

 

[Hardtarget]

interesting. i had ot set it to video overlay seconday monitor and then it is fullscreen on the tv, neato. thanks