VLC via laptop to beamer!

[Jos]

Hey everybody,

I've just installed VLC on a laptop, running XP Pro; seems great, lots of nice features, however.... I'd like to watch DivX movies using a BEAMER! Somehow I simply cann't figure out how to get this work! Do you?

The movie runs perfectly on the laptop-screen, but it refuses to show up on the beamer using the RGB output of the laptop. (The video window as well as the Windows environment are shown on the beamer, but the film itself just remains black; an empty window is all I get....)

Further I discovered it DOES work using Quicktime: when running a Quicktime movie using Quicktime, it IS being displayed on the beamer!

Now, I'd say that if Quicktime can do it, at least VLC should be able to do it as well, with DivX movies.... right?

Please HELP!

Cheers -- Jos

[chriss0212]

Hi Jos,

it seems to be a overlay problem of your grafic card, try to disable the internal screen of your laptop, somtimes this helps

chriss

[ArneVR]

Hi,

This is a problem often found with laptop presentations.

You should probably set the external screen (beamer) as PRIMARY and the internal screen as SECONDARY.

You may find that the situation is then reversed.

I guess some of the acceleration features of the graphics chip can only be used on one screen at a time. Maybe QT does not use these features.

Nothing to do with VLC or VLS.

Hope this helps,

Arne

[BigBen]

Well, most (all) graphic card doesn't support overlay on 2 screens.

Try disabling overlay in the video tab of the preferences of VLC

[Jos]

Gents!

Thank you very much for your help! (Sorry for this rather late reply, but I had some other obligations meanwhile.)

Anyhow, I did flollow your advises: I changed some video-params in the laptop BIOS settings (HP Omnibook) and guess what... bingo!

I'm now able to enjoy a real cinema experience, at home! (And the best part is: smoking is allowed here during movie playback...)

Cheers -- Jos