Acer laptop to TV- GUI on TV, but no movie image

[nathanmarsh]

Hi

I've got a Acer laptop with S-Video out. I've connected it to my TV, and the Windows Desktop is on the TV screen.

But when I playback a movie, I can see the Media Player/PowerDVD application on the TV screen, but there is no movie playing on the TV (on the laptop screen the film is playing)

What's going on?- copy protection of some sort?

Anyone know of a utility to sort this problem out?

btw, the laptop video card is a SIS 650, running XP SP1, 650 drivers version 2.07K.


Thanks
Nathan

[Batman]

Possibly a copy protection issue. There is a "workaround" (which I don't know) on this forum I think you should use the search function.

[setarip]

You might want to do a Google search for the software product "TVTool"...

[nathanmarsh]

I've figured out a work-around. On the mirrored mode, that's when media player has blank video.

Set to multi-monitor mode, I dragged media player to the right so it appeared on the TV, then played. Movie plays on the TV.

Is there a TV Tool app for SIS- heard it's just for Nvidia.

Thanks
Nathan

[setarip]

Congratulations on resolving your dilemma ;>}


"Is there a TV Tool app for SIS- heard it's just for Nvidia?"

I'd suggest that you check for specifics at the TVTool website...

[nathanmarsh]

I've had a look on TV Tool's site, but confirmed that only works with Geforce cards (my desktop PC has a Geforce 2 MX and it runs)- on the laptop it comes up with only nvidia chipsets are supported.

Anyone know of a similar app, just a generic hack for protection?

Thx
Nathan