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    Display wont stream over TV out?

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by joeycuccaro, May 3, 2008.

  1. joeycuccaro

    joeycuccaro Newbie

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    Hey guys,

    Trying to use my TV out on my Alienware with the Nvidia Geforce Go 6800 to play a movie. I have my laptop display up on the HDTV just fine. However the movie is playing on Windows Media player on the laptop, but it wont play on my TV. The window media player is there, but its just a blank screen. Any ideas?
     
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    mjl2142 Notebook Evangelist

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    What kind of port are you using for the video out?
    What laptop model?
     
    mjl2142, May 3, 2008
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    joeycuccaro Newbie

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    Its the Area 51 7700. I just got it to work with VLC media player, but it wont with Windows Media player. Im just using an S-Video port.

    On a side note, i full screen the VLC media player on my Alienware, however on the TV display its too big. I have to scroll around with the mouse to get it centered. Do you know how i can fix this?
     
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    Riebart Notebook Enthusiast

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    It is going to have something to do with your overlay settings. I haven't owned an NVidia card in years so I can't give exact directions, but go into your control panel and poke through your theatre overlay settings (That's what ATI calls them anyway). They can be limiting what media goes out to the TV, since WMP is probably using hardware video playback stuffs and hence may not get output through the S-Video/VGA/DVI/HDMI/Whatever output you're using.

    Try that: Theatre/overlay settings.
     
    Riebart, May 3, 2008
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