[MEncoder-users] mplayer window blank on TV set hooked to laptop

[Ivo]

On Tuesday 06 March 2007 19:34, Tomasz Ksiezyk wrote:
> Sorry for posting a question here which is not directly related to the
> subject of this discussion group. I hoped that people reading this list
> might know the solution.
>
> I used to play my movies on my laptop hooked to a TV set. Recently I
> have upgraded from Windows 2000 to XP. Unfortunately, now when I play a
> movie with mplayer it shows it in the laptop's window properly, but the
> corresponding window on the TV screen is blank. I tried to solve this
> problem in a similar way as I did with Windows 2000, namely by making
> both the Panel and TV monitors active. I was able to do this from
> Control Panel --> Display --> Settings --> Advanced... --> Displays.
> Under XP I see only one default display.
>
> What can I do to fix my problem?

If you are using an NVidia chipset and its driver with twinview capability, 
you have to configure the driver to display the overlay at the second head 
(or whichever head your TV is). The video overlay can only be displayed on 
one head at the time.

--Ivo