S-video on a 32mb ATI Radeon

[Chronical]

I have my computer hooked up to my TV using the s-video out and it works fine except when i play movies in windows media player. Everything shows up except for the square where the movie should be playing which remains black. The movie still plays perfectly fine on my monitor though. Any ideas?

[juliendogg]

yeah, some programs will only allow video playback on your primary display. i got around it by setting both monitor and tv to primary just while watching a video. you can set a hotkey for this. but i have noticed it may depend on your driver version. with the omegas i could only get video playback on one device. i had to set monitor as secondary to playback on tv and vice versa.
hope this helps. right now i'm using the 7206 drivers

[Coolio]

Yea i have a 7500 with s-video. If I go to ctrl panel --> Displays --> Advanced --> Displays then I can select wich i want to make my primary display -- Tv or monitor.. Interesting thing is that if monitor is not primary display then the picture still shows.

[Chronical]

Thanks guys, I haven't really fixed the problem but i can get around it so it's all good!