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Posted by me on 10/06/97 11:36
On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 21:34:44 GMT, spam@uce.gov (Bob) wrote:
>Does the standard video have a composite video out? I believe you need
>a special DB connector with an RCA jack on one end.
>
>If so, can you play DVDs on your computer and view them with an
>ordinary TV that has Line In? I assume you can connect the Line Out
>from the sound to the TV Line In with a special micro plug-to- RCA
>plug.
>
I watch avi's on TV alot. Run the yellow RCA jack from your video card
to your TV's yellow AV IN jack.
NOTE!!!: If using XP, when you fire up Windows Media Player,
or most any other player, you'll see nothing in the media player on
the TV. You NEED to TURN OFF hardware acceleration on your video card.
(Same reason why you can't copy a Window Media player video to the
clipboard.) Win98, no problem. DirectX9 thing.
Here's how: right click on your desktop, select properties. In
the box that pops up, select the setting tab, click advanced, select
troubleshooting. turh the hardware aceleration slider to 0, all the
way off, none. etc...
Here's why:
When you play a video, on 99% of graphics cards, the frames of video
are actually being drawn in a YUV color format in a part of the frame
buffer that is off the bottom of your screen (an "overlay" surface).
The driver tells the graphics card that, instead of pulling pixels
from the visible frame buffer when it gets to your window, it should
pull pixels from the overlay surface instead.
Since most compressed videos are in some kind of YUV color space
anyway, this save an unnecessary conversion step. However, it means
that the actual frames are not drawn to the visible frame buffer, so
you can't read them with ordinary Windows graphics APIs.
( from to Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. )
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