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Posted by Alan Shepherd on 01/07/06 20:09
>>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. )
Most dual display cards have the option in advanced features for the display
adaptor to display full screen overlay video on the secondary display.
On Ati cards it's called Theatre Mode, nVidia have a similar option.
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