Posted by Steve Kleene on 12/26/69 11:29

We just had a mysterious failure to play videos from our laptop to our TV.
I'm wondering if anyone could suggest an explanation.

We connected our Toshiba Satellite laptop, running Windows XP, to the TV's S-
video port. We put in a rental DVD and called Windows Media Player. The DVD
played successfully on the laptop's monitor. On the TV screen, we saw the
desktop, the player's skin, and everything but the video itself. The sound
played on the TV. We got exactly the same failure with a second DVD and with
two movie trailers that we downloaded from imdb.com. Trying a second media
player (InterActual) gave the same failure. However, an MPEG stored on the
laptop's hard drive did play correctly on the TV.

In the recent past, we have played DVDs successfully with all of this same
hardware and (as far as we know) the same configuration.

If anyone can suggest how we managed to send all of the video signal except
the movie itself to the TV, I'd be grateful.

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