S-video out from laptop to TV

[Bill in SD, CA]

When I hook up my laptop to the TV with the S-video cable I get the laptop screen on the TV.

However, when I try to play a DVD I get the sound, the background of the lappie, the DVD player screen, but no video even though the video is playing on the laptop screen.

What am I doing wrong?

Bill

[Jeordiewhite]

Hmmm, what is the video chipset your laptop has, also are you cloning the video. I think you may need to setup the tv as the primary display and open the video when it is on the tv and see if that helps.

[Bill in SD, CA]

Video is ATI 9000 and I switched to TV as display.

What I don't get is the player screen is working on the laptop but does not play on the TV. I get the player window but not the video.

Tried MOHAA and that works.

Bill

[Jeordiewhite]

How very odd, try disabling VPU recover, that only has caused problems for me, tho it may not effect the video, I don't know.
If you have the video codec installed for Mpeg2, then try playing it directly from windows media player. If that works then it might be the dvd software.
Try these
http://nimo.titanesk.com/modules/fre...index.php?id=1
http://www.mpeg.org/MPEG/MSSG/

[butch81385]

Video is ATI 9000 and I switched to TV as display.

does that mean that it is "primary display". that is the only option on my GFmx440 that needed to be changed for video to work

[Jeordiewhite]

Well I think it's differen't with ATI and Nvidia, my other computer has an ati radeon 7500 and this has a geforce 4 ti 4600.

With my radeon, I have no problem switching between them.
With the Geforce card I have to use the primary display to get video to work.

The ati also act's differently since I can even have the TV enabled and use it even when not in windows, however I usually leave it disabled.

[Bill in SD, CA]

Thanks for the suggestions. My son has the laptop at college right now.

We will check on output tomorrow.

Don't stop with the suggestions BTW!

Bill

[Bill in SD, CA]

Got it working.

Had to change display to NTFS on TV options.

Bill