StarDestroyer.Net BBS

OK, with my new card I went and got me some composite cables, now I've got my desktop on my TV too, I was planning to use this so I could watch movies on my computer, on my TV.

However when I open a movie in Windows Media Player or Divx Player 2.0, there's just a dark screen, the same kind of effect you get when you take a screenshot with a movie playing on the screen, the movie is utterly dark.

Whats happening?

Which graphics card are you using ?

evilcat4000 wrote:Which graphics card are you using ?

HIS Excalibur Radeon 9600 Pro 128MB

You have to set the TV as the primary display, and your monitor as the secondary display, in the displays tab in the video card control panel, and that should do it, at least that's how it worked with my last laptop. I haven't pluged a tv to a computer since.

Yep. It has to do with the video overlay; make the TV-out the primary display.