Watching Video from my PC on my TV [Closed]

hi,
you have to set the screen resolution correctly.
go to control panel > display settings,
there you can activate the second screen, that is, your tv screen.

go to display settings, click advanced.

Go to troubleshoot.

Under Hardware Acceleration turn it to the second lowest option.

Problem solved.

OK, normally I don't respond to tech boards but I just figured this one out after struggling with it for about 3 days after reinstalling windows on my machine.

I have a GeForce FX 5200 card - NVIDIA software.

Here is what you do - to go control panel - display - Advanced - then the GeForce FX 5200 tab - go down to Full screen video - in that tab you will see Full Screen device - make sure that it is set to Secondary display. Then hit apply and OK.

Now you can play your video on your TV while at the same time be able to do what ever you want on that computer and it doesn't show up on the TV screen.

In addition, if you want to play youtube clips or games on your TV you can.

The TV can now play VLC player videos and when you aren't playing the videos it clones your computer monitor.

Hope that helps - I am so happy I got this under control!!

Hi,

thanks for your reply. I use Catalyst Control Centre and clone my desktop to my TV. The resolution is fine my desktop is cloned perfectly. The problem is when I play a video. On my TV the VLC program window won't display the video and is just black while on my PC monitor the video plays fine.

I know my setup can work because I have been watching videos for ages on my TV with current settings. It just stopped working. Anyone know why?

Cheers

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You have to set your resolution to one that fits screen size then your problem should be solved

It could just be that the video card you have is only capable of doing one channel for video output, it is possible that there was a driver update somewhere along the line that allowed multiple channel output, and it is also possible that update caused problems, so the newest drivers had to remove that abillity to resolve this. Theres only one way to know this or something else, talk to the manufacturer of the video card.

for troubleshooting in the meantime:

Try making the tv your primary monitor on your computer. Of course make sure the previous suggestions are set as well (resolutions). To find what the resolution should be for that tv, read the manual for the tv or just do a search online with the model and brand of the tv.

these solutions sound complicated

try this

http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=45611&p=144312

I have been having this problem, too. VLC used to work fine with the S-video cable to my wide-screen tv. Now I have the same problem described by the original poster. The desktop appears just fine on the tv screen and the audio goes to the tv, too, via a cable I run from the headphone jack on the computer. However, the picture screen within the VLC window is just black. As I said, it USED TO work fine. The only thing that has changed is that I answered "yes" a few weeks ago when I got a message asking if I wanted to upgrade to the latest version of VLC. I am thinking there is osmething about the latest version that makes it incompatible with the S-video setup I have. I'd like to go back to he prior version to see if that works. I'll let you know if I figure out how to do that, and whether it works.

Has anyone else here figured out a fix for this?

Thanks.

It turned out to be a driver issue. I remembered that I had to re-install my Windows XP Pro not long ago, and maybe I have not used the S-video cable to the TV since then. So, I went to the Dell site and downloaded the recommended drivers there. (I am using a Dell laptop.)

I hope this helps someone.

cheers . . .

termc

I AM IN PROBLEM IF SOMEONE CAN HELP ME SO THIS WILL BE SOOOOO THANKS
I JUST INSTALL GEFORCE FX 5500 GRAPHIC CARD FOR VIDEO OUTPUT PURPOSE.I USE 2 MONITORS
1-WHO ATTACHED WITH MY PC
2-WHO SET WITH MY VIDEO PLAYER
MONITOR NUMBER 2 IS ATTACHED WITH VCR VIA TELEVESION BOX WHO SO HOW CAN I JOINT ALL THINGS
1-MY VG CARD VIDEO OUT WHO I "IN" MY VCR,VCR OUT IS GO TO TV BOX IN THAN BOX OUT VIDEO CABLE TO
ANOTHER (NUM0-2) MONITOR...AM I RIGHT OR WRONG...?
I WANT ALSO KNOW THAT HAVE ANY CABLE/JOINTER AVAIL IN MARKET WHO ATTACTH VIDEO OUT (FROM MY GRAPHIC CARD) TO DIRECT MONITOR DATA CABLE (I DONT WANT ATTACHED VIDEO BOX BETWEEN MONITOR NUMBER 2 AND VIDEO OUT CABLE
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Turn off hardware acceleration on your graphics card.

It should work after that.

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i hook up my laptop to my tv using a vga cable which works fine for watching films but every time i put the video to full screen t goes he audio goes out of sync. what can i do to sort this out.

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Hey

Im runnin a windows 2000 and i had the same problem, I had 3 screens running, the laptop screen, a seperate standard screen and the TV. VLC media Player 0.9.8a

I managed to fix it, I opened

Contol Panel/Display/Settings/Advanced/Displays

It had 3 options for the moniter, panel and tv, i changed it to make the TV the default screen, The Moniter stoped working but the picture on the TV began working.

Try using a PC to TV Converter you can purchase them from amazon.com for about $30.00.

Hello,
I want to watch videos I have on my laptop through my TV. I have bought a VGA cable which I have connected to the TV and it displays the film through the PC channel on the television but no sound! I have also connected a cable (white and red one end) into TV and other end into the headphone jack on the laptop. This produces the sound through the TV but on the S Video channel not the PC channel. So basically I can watch the film with no sound or listen to the film with no visual as they are both on different channels.
Is there a way to have the two working together?? ?? Thanks in advance.

i had this same problem, but when i downloaded vlc it started working, then i tried a different movie but this time it didnt work. so i tried the first movie and it didnt work, so i tried quicktime player and it worked, i have no idea what is going on but now i just convert all my movies to mpeg4 and they all work on the tv on quicktime