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

[Tomasz Ksiezyk]

Thanks a lot for your prompt reply. Unfortunately, I don't know enough 
about chipsets and drivers to make use of the hint you gave me. The 
video chipset on my laptop is ATI RAGE Mobility-P (DELL). I don't know 
how to proceed in order to configure its driver in a way you described. 
Can I do it interactively via available XP GUI tools? I would appreciate 
further help. Maybe you give me a link to a web site where I could study 
this topic.

In the meantime, I have discovered that when I disable the video 
adapter, then the only monitor is the TV set and then the mplayer window 
shows the video OK. It is inconvenient to have to switch back and forth 
between enable / disable, but at least I can now watch my movies on the 
TV as before with Windows 2000.

Thanks again,

Tomasz Ksiezyk

Ivo wrote:
> 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
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