Graphics card TV out problem
 

My PC (running Win XP Pro SP2) has a Radeon 9800XT. The TV out from the card goes to one of the SCART sockets on my TV, so if I want to watch TV/video/DVD using my PC, I can watch it on my nice big WS TV instead of using the PC's monitor.

It's always been fine, until now.

For some reason, if I try & play a video using WMP, with the card's TV out enabled, the video does not display on the TV - yet I *can* see WMP itself on the TV, & anything else that's also displayed on the monitor. But the space in WMP for the video itself is just black (on the TV).


The only thing I can think of that has been changed is the ATI drivers - I recently upgraded from the 4.11 Catalyst drivers to 4.12


Before I go messing around uninstalling & reinstalling drivers (& that's only if I still have the 4.11 Cats somewhere :erm: ), doesanyone have any ideas? Could it be something else? Is there a setting somewhere? Or is it likely to be the drivers?

Re: Graphics card TV out problem
 

Try fiddling with the overlays in the display driver control panel app. Also, if you haven't already, upgrade to WMP 10.

Re: Graphics card TV out problem
 

Cheers. I'll give that a try.

Re: Graphics card TV out problem
 

Failing that, your best bet is to ask on rage3d.com, guarantee somebody will know the answer.

Re: Graphics card TV out problem
 

Ta :)

Re: Graphics card TV out problem
 

You need to set the TV as the primary display because thats all DirectDraw will write to. You do that in your graphics card control panel.

Re: Graphics card TV out problem
 

That's what I was going to say.

Some things don't work in 2nd display and directdraw / overlay blah is one of them.

Re: Graphics card TV out problem
 

I never had to do that before, though, & it always worked.


But I'll give it a shot, anyway.