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I'm having trouble watching videos on my 2nd monitor. Here's some background info before I describe the problem in detail:

OS: WinXP SP2
2nd Monitor: an LG television (32LH3000) linked to my laptop via an RGB cable
Laptop: Toshiba Qosmio F25-AV205
Video: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600
VLC: v1.1.4

I've tried everything I can think of... but I'm unable to get VLC to display a video file on my tv - I get audio, but just a black picture instead of video. It's worth noting that I've also tried using Windows Media Player and I'm not having any problems.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

K

Deactivate overlay in preferences.

Hi there,

Thanks for the tip. This didn't have an effect, but I found a discussion thread through a search engine that suggested I make a change to my BIOS relating to the config of my secondary display; this turned out to be irrelevant, but while poking around my BIOS I changed the default display setting from NTSC to PAL.

Also, in the NVIDIA settings, I made the 2nd monitor an extension of the first instead of cloning.

Now, I'm able to watch videos using VLC, but not in clone mode (which I'd prefer).

I think my issues aren't related to VLC specifically, but instead are a symptom of some other problem (probably relating to my display driver) because:
- I have no issues with VLC on my backup laptop
- On my primary laptop, some but not all of my videos won't play correctly on Windows Media player (the audio's fine, but the video quality is buggered - funny colours / poor quality).

Any thoughts? Thanks, K