Can't See Videos On My Tv

[volskid2002]

when i hook my tv up to my pc i can see the desktop and all that but when i go to play a video it doesnt show up???

can anyone help me?

[Neo 721]

Can you please provide a little more depth, explain what hardware you are using to connect the TV, ie TV cards ect, state cables used also.

[Spindulik]

The answer is! (if you use NVIDIA drivers)

You must go to your Video card settings and tell the PC that your primary video display is TV.

Try this...
http://mysite.verizon.net/vze3nvj6/1.gif



Ideal TV settings in picture...
http://mysite.verizon.net/vze3nvj6/settings.gif

[volskid2002]

thanx but im using a Radeon 9000 pro. the other problem is when i am watching movies the screen color goes bright then dark again and also every now and then the whole screen goes blue for a couple of seconds then returns normal. also when i try to go to overplay controls to adjust my color settings to the ones you said it says that overlay will automatically be detected during the playback of a movie and also one more problem is that my screen resollution is set to 1024x768 but the size of my screen on my computer is real small how do i change that and also on the tv the font is unreadable how can i make it clearer so that i have the best possible output on my tv from my videocard???

thanx for all the help

[volskid2002]

one more thing, lol :P under all my ATI setting there are two tabs that i dont know what they are one is OpenGL and the other is Direct3D, can anyone tell me what these tabs are for???

[Spindulik]

Yeah, one is for openGL, the other is for DirectD.



Some games use OpenGl, such a a few DOS games I am aware of. Most Windows games use Direct3D (DirectX). they are just two different modes of 3D rendering. Those tabs allow you to tweak the 3D settings.