On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Jody Belka wrote:
> Simon Wistow said: > > Quick question - recently, whilst trying to watch a DVD on a laptop (a > > lateish model Vaio) on the TV via composite out (little yellow headphone > > jack sized female socket?) we'd get a sharp picture of the desktop but a > > black rectangle where the DVD was playing. This was in Windows media > > Player and some proprietary DVD app so I presume it was a codec issue. > > > > I saw mention of 'overlay' or something but turning off various options > > to do with that gave no joy. > > ok, quick explanation of video hardware and full-motion video. since i'm > lazy, some of this is just copy and pasted in :) > <snip> > now how you actually set which display is primary and which clone is > dependent on your what graphics card/chipset you have so i'm afraid i > can't help there. > <delurk> It's Fn-F8 on my Vaio laptop (FX804), and it plays DVDs a treat (using WinDVD which was bundled with the machine). I'm not aware of any primary/n-ary display issue, as only one display can be active at once. That said, I've had the same problem with TV out on a desktop machine with a GeForce 3 card before, but it was intermittent and not reproducible. As usual with Gatesware, a reboot did the trick. Grr. Ant
