The VideoLAN Forums

Hi

Firstly Im a newbie but ive found videolan to be excellent, it seems to play all my files where as realplayer and win media is nothing but problems for me.

Ive searched and cant find any answers to this on the forum (if im wrong PLEASE redirect me)

My problem is that i want to view my files on my TV instead of my laptop, ive bought an s-vhs and speaker cable that converts into a scart and switched my tv to svhs channel but no pic?

Do i have to configure video LAN somehow? maybe select output device as svhs or something

or maybe i have to configure windows, im using windows 2000

any help very much appreciated

thanx
j0e

First thing is to configure your laptop to send the display on the S-video output...

then, if you can see your desktop, but not the video, try disabling overlay in the preferences, video tab, advanced options.

VLC-0.7.0 has support for multi-monitor systems.

However many cards can only display a video overlay on only 1 screen at a time so if you are running in "duplication" mode (same output on both displays) you need to tell windows that your primary display is the TV out if you want to have overlays shown on it.
You can also simply disable the video overlay in VLC has stated above.