Movie playback to TV

[waynebinuk]

Hello Peeps,

I download quite a lot of films and have been getting sick of watching em on my pc monitor so as my graphics card has a S-Video output I thought it would be nice to link my PC with the TV in my bedroom so I can watch em in comfort. So I ordered myself a nice S-Video lead which connects the two together GREAT!, I have windows desktop and everything else appearing on my TV except when I actually start to play a film the box with the movie in is black on my TV but has the film in it on my monitor what the hell is going on I have real big back log of films to watch please help!!!!!!

Thnx

Wayne

[UncasMS]

check the tv-out OVERLAY options

[rsquirell]

you have to change the monitor to the TV from control panel>>display>>settings>>advanced>>displays

[shiny#3]

in addition to that it would be great to know
what kind of graphic card you have.

nvidia based, ati based, or other!!

since setting options might be slightly different.

[waynebinuk]

Hi again,

And thanks for your rapid response, firstly I am running a Geforce 4 TI4600 and I have checked that the output is set to Tv and everything else I can see seems to be set right. I am not to sure about the Tv-out overley controls (what are they? and where are they?) everything on my Pc monitor appears on my Tv screen except for the actual movie thats playing if I play the movie in full screen on my monitor I get full screen and a perfect picture but just a black screen on my Tv any ideas?

[waynebinuk]

Hi

Success I have found and changed the overlay controls and hey presto it's appeared the only other thing is I have 2 black bars at the top and bottom of the screen is this just because it's a widescreen Tv ?

[UncasMS]

is this just because it's a widescreen Tv

if these bars only occur with certain movies then i'd say they are perfectly normal when dealing with NON fullscreen titles.

[bridgette]

Hi, I have the same problems as Waynebinuk had, black screen. where do I find these overlay controls, and what do I do? It's very frustrating!!!

[UncasMS]

since the overlay settings depend on vga and driver you cant expect us to know where you'll find it.

rightclicking the desktop and looking at your vga properties will be a good start.

the black bars are due to the movies resolution and thus neither annoying nor unusual - annoying are those crappy (american) 4:3 formats from my point of view.

[Reiss]

tv out

if your using a gforce. it helps to dowload the latest drivers.
nview has a tonne of options for your tv out
with regards to the black bars - i tend to adjust the aspect ratio on my video player (zoom player or divx) by right clicking in the video screen and selecting a 4:3 aspect ratio. makes the image fit the tv perfectly.

[waynebinuk]

Thanks a lot you guys all seems well on the tv, now I just have to suss burning images to dvd