Why doesn´t the tv monitor show films that are played from a laptop plugged to it?

Question

We have several monitors at home which double up as a tv. when i plug my laptop to them, everything seems fine (the monitor displays the laptop icons, programmes and images just like they appear on the laptop itself), but when I try to watch a movie that is playing on the laptop on the tv screen, the area where the film should appear just stays black. dvds played on the laptop don't show up either.

Answer 1

All laptop video solutions are different so it's not easy to answer this question in detail. But generally, you can access the graphics processor's settings by right clicking an empty space on the desktop and selecting "Properties." Click the far right tab on the window that pops up and then push the button marked "Advanced." Here you can adjust the laptop's and the external monitor's separately and your best odds lie in making the external monitor's refresh frequency equal to that of the notebook, if possible. If that doesn't solve the problem you might try to adjust its resolution too. Another thing you can try is adjusting (lowering) the amount of hardware acceleration.

If none of this works the problem is probably related to the codec used. In many cases settings for separate monitors can be set from the codec's user interface. In other cases downloading and installing an alternate codec would be the solution.

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Answer 3

Try playing w/ Power DVD, it might help.