As like most people I have a load of divx and xvid videos and I was watching on of them the other day. My laptop has an s-video output to the likes of videos, tv's ect. Anyway I hooked up my laptop to my tv (s-video to a scart adapter to tv). Everything was roses, clear picture, full screen and I had colour. Now I used this before with some games and microsoft word and they worked fine but when I play a divx or a xvid in ANY of my compatible players, I hear the sound through the tv but the picture is just a faint dark purple. Now I'm looking at my laptop seeing the video playing and on the tv screen I can see wmp but not the video. It's really weird because when I playing mpeg's or mov's they work perfectly. So what's up with this?
Any suggestions wouldn't go amiss!
Thanks in advance!
Exact same thing happens on my laptop - the only solution is to set the display so it's only going to the TV, or set your video drivers so the TV is the main screen. I know you can do this on an ATI card - that's what my laptop has. It's just under the display settings
That's strange how it works with other video formats. Only thing I can think of is to try playing it in Windows Media Player with video acceleration turned off. (in Tools->Options->Performance).
Its a video overlay problem. You need to make the TV the default monitor for video overlay. Alternatively, (this is what I do) you could extend your desktop to the TV, then just drag the video app onto the TV screen, then go to fullscreen. That should work.
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