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Just connected my pc to a tv using svideo. I am running xp pro with ati radeon 9250 graphics card.
The problem is that on the tv I am only seeing the "bare" desktop pc display- meaning that everything else ( icons, taskbar, etc etc etc ) is not showing. Any videos I run on the pc - or anything else - also does not show on the tv - again only the pc destop wallpaper.
It all probably has something to do with settings and configuration but I was unable to find anything about it in the ATI documents.
Any suggetions to solve this - and to get the "actual" PC dislay on tv - would be very much appreciated.
thanks
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that is exactly what I did. made the tv the secondary monitor - still didn't help and only get the bare desktop. Maybe there are other settings that need to be set up....
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Find the setting in the Catalyst software to CLONE the primary display to the TV/secondary display.
If that doesn't work, if you updated drivers/associated apps for the card, you MUST install them in the right order or the ATI software won't work properly. They may not be listed in the order you install them on the web site - see the installation instructions pointed to on the page where the drivers/apps are listed.
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Agreed; it sounds like you extended your desktop (vs. cloning your display).
Test: Display Properties -> Settings -> Identify.
If your TV has a big "2" on it, your TV is not a clone of your monitor.
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I did "clone" the display to the TV and that seems to have done the job - except that and video I run on the computer comes out on the TV as a blank frame. Tried adjusting the hardware acceleration ( as one does when trying to capture video ) but that didn't have any effect. There must also be some resolution issues I feel as computer res. and tv res. are not the same.
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Look for some reference to "Overlays" or "Video playback" in the ATi control panel, and tinker with those settings.
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I did mess around with the Video and Overlays settings too....but no matter what I selected still getting black video on the TV. The overlays anyway are mainly just for brightness/hue/saturation/contrast settings. In fact tried lots of things in the ati catalyist control centre but nothing seems to get the video from the pc to the tv - only a black frame.
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When I click on Overlay in my Radeon 7000 settings, it says:
"The overlay controls are automatically activated during playback of any video file type that supports overlay adjustments."Is it only some video that won't display on the TV, such as DVD video, or is it all video?
If it's some video, look at the settings for that video type, such as in the DVD player software, to see if you can get it to support overlay.If it is for all video, or if you can't find a setting for the video that won't display, sometimes you must make the TV the Primary display in order for the video to show up on it.
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It is all for regular avi video files. There is really no specific setting for it in the ati catalyst centre...but I will try your suggestion of making the tv the primary - although not too sure what that will do to the computer monitor lol....
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"There must also be some resolution issues I feel as computer res. and tv res. are not the same."
Display from a video card to a non HD TV is always limited to the really old TV display standards - interlaced, at a 60Hz vertical refresh rate in North America, 50 Hz most other places, and you can only use certain resolutions. Video can look okay on a TV, but text and some graphics cannot be as sharp and well defined on a TV because of the relatively coarse dot pitch on the TV.
TV out built into a video card is often inferior to that of a standalone TV or video capture card because they often have higher resoultions to choose from, but they too are limited as to what the display can look like on a TV because of the interlacing , 60 or 50 Hz vertical refresh rate, and the coarse dot pitch.
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