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Hey,

I have my desktop cloned to a television in my house. However when I play a file the image inside the player does not clone to television. I can see the player, and I get audio, but the video pane is black. I can stream off the internet with HULU type sites, but I if I play it from my computers' files I get no video.

Is there a setting that I need to adjust or some kind of copy protect thing I dont know about?

Your time is greatly apprecitated.

Regards,

Sean

You should try to go to VLC preferences and try different settings in Video pane, especially:
- overlay (checkbox)
- output (DirectX, etc)
- whatever sound related to a "direct rendering" stuff.

This is a widespread limitation of video adapters. You can either turn off acceleration by selecting another video output as Thannoy said, but VLC will consume a lot more CPU. Or you can reconfigure your video adapter driver to run the overlay on the TV output, but you will loose the ability to watch videos on the normal computer screen.