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

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

Mr. Smith,

Please let me apologize for not responding sooner. Your fix did just great.
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?

----

Blinkey


"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
>
>

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
>>
>>