Playing movies on your computer, on your TV

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2003-10-17 10:31am

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?

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2003-10-17 11:01am

Which graphics card are you using ?

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2003-10-17 11:10am

evilcat4000 wrote:Which graphics card are you using ?

HIS Excalibur Radeon 9600 Pro 128MB

Shogoki · Post by **Shogoki** » 2003-10-17 11:20am

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.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-10-17 03:11pm

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