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Hello.

I'm using an HP laptop (quite old) and wanted to connect to my Sony TV. I've got an S-Video cable and stereo sound from the laptop to the tv. The laptop has a FN+xxxx button to allow me to "turn on" the S-Video output.

WIth that, I can see my desktop on the TV.

If I play VLC I get just a black box on the TV.

Is there a way to get VLC to output to the S-Video connector on my laptop?

I don't know a lot, so please be nice. More than willing to play around if someone can at least point me in the right direction of some appropriate and relevant documentation.

Thank you,

Richard.

Deactivate Overlay (Hardware acceleration)

j-b, thank you for replying, I'll be giving that a go.

But so that I am sure, there is no way to send the video DIRECTLY to the S-Video output?

So I can have my desktop on my laptop and the video on the TV?

yes, if your driver know how to do that, and windows detects your TV as a second monitor, you can do that.