Odd Laptop Ati 'TV-Out' problem

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I've got an HP N5420L Pavilion Laptop, WinME (came installed and I've
been to lazy to change OS) and an S3 Graphics Inc. Savage/IX video
adaptor.

Up until now, I have been able to plug the tv-out on the laptop into
my tv and watch encoded videos in the usual forms AVI,MPG,WMV etc,
encoded in various codecs.

All the sudden when I switch to TV display, it auto-switches to
640x480 resolution and the desktop fits correctly on the screen..

But when I play a video, either in Windows Media Player, or in Power
DVD, It shows on the TV as the top 2/3rds or so of the picture
-stretched- to fill the screen. I look on the laptop screen (which
always before showed the exact same image as on the tv) and it shows
the video in it's proper format.

I've tried every setting I know of and stopped short of uninstalling
the vid drivers and as many codecs as possible and then reinstalling
everything from scratch..

Figured I'd ask first if anyone has had a similiar problem and maybe
find a quicker fix ?

Thanks,

Tony!
 
Tony said:
I've got an HP N5420L Pavilion Laptop, WinME (came installed and I've
been to lazy to change OS) and an S3 Graphics Inc. Savage/IX video
adaptor.
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Come along now... is it S3 or ATI? :-)
Up until now, I have been able to plug the tv-out on the laptop into
my tv and watch encoded videos in the usual forms AVI,MPG,WMV etc,
encoded in various codecs.

All the sudden when I switch to TV display, it auto-switches to
640x480 resolution and the desktop fits correctly on the screen..

But when I play a video, either in Windows Media Player, or in Power
DVD, It shows on the TV as the top 2/3rds or so of the picture
-stretched- to fill the screen. I look on the laptop screen (which
always before showed the exact same image as on the tv) and it shows
the video in it's proper format.

I've tried every setting I know of and stopped short of uninstalling
the vid drivers and as many codecs as possible and then reinstalling
everything from scratch..

Figured I'd ask first if anyone has had a similiar problem and maybe
find a quicker fix ?
Click to expand...

Is the Windows Media Player window larger than 640x480? I.e., it's not
maximised, but defaults to opening larger than the screen size?

What happens if you make it full-screen or open the Widows Media PLayer
window, whrink it right down in size, then switch over to TV?

It's not a virtual desktop problem... where the desktop is larger than the
display size and you scroll around?

Just some thoughts.

Ben
 
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