On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 07:02:02 -0800, "Gary"
<Gary@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Mr. Smith,
>
>Please let me apologize for not responding sooner. Your fix did just great.

Cool, glad to help.

> The problem was not with my video card but with my settings for Media
>Player. I had to turn off "Use Overlays". Works just great now. I just
>wish I didn't have to change resolutions in order to see the see on the TV
>what I see on the Monitor. If I don't change the resolution, I have to "pan"
>the picture to get all of what I see on the monitor.
>
>Is there a fix for that?


I'm not really sure - the TV display area will at most be 720x576
(probably slightly less in the TV's "safe area"), and less again for
an NTSC TV.

I can only think there will be some setting in your graphics card
config tools to 'scale' the picture, but then it will probably me much
less sharp than on a monitor at 1200x1024 for example.


Cheers - Neil


>"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:
>
>> If you open media player, go to Tools -> Options -> Performance and
>> click Advanced : Turn off 'use overlays' and maybe 'use primary
>> surfaces' does it work then ?
>>
>> If not, I'd check with your graphics card documentation about how to
>> enable the TV output correclty, there might be additional driver
>> settings (e.g nVidia has a control panel applet to handle these
>> overlays on the TV output).
>>
>> Make sure to set them back when you're done watching, as these
>> settings optimise the graphics card output for use on PCs monitor
>>
>> Cheers - Neil
>>
>> On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 06:56:02 -0800, "Gary"
>> <Gary@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>> >When I use Media Player to display videos on a connected television, I get
>> >the outline of Media Player but no picture. No video file displays on the TV
>> >but there is picture on the computer monitor. No on computer video media
>> >file will display on the TV (avi, wmv, etc). If I play music and transmit
>> >the video of the sound waves to the tv and not just sound, I get the
>> >visualization. It's just that there is no video. I can use Macromedia on
>> >some files and their video displays fine. When I use other programs, Word,
>> >Excel, etc., there are no problems with the display. I am using an Nvidia
>> >440-MX video card and the Svideo out to a Samsung Svideo in. Your help
>> >please. Hopefully you won't quickly say it's my video card. Thank you.
>> >
>> >----
>> >Blinkey
>>
>>