Watch on TV!

[Guest]

Using notebook with S-VIDEO output for view DivX on TV
with VideoLAN the TV display the window of the operating system (Windows XP) but DON'T display any DivX the window of the video IS BLACK!

Why?

[markfm]

Is what you're saying:
the display on the notebook computer looks OK (shows the video), but the output from the S-Video of the laptop shows a black rectangle (you see the outline of the player window, but black inside it) where the Video SW is playing? In other words, you are seeing the laptop display replicated to the S-Video port, just that the Videolan SW part isn't displaying properly.

If it is, I had this happen at work in the lab two weeks ago. For me it turned out that I had the wrong setting on my laptop's video. I use a Dell laptop, with an ATI graphic chipset, S-video output built-in.

I had to have the TV plugged in (an active load on the S_Video output port), then opened my laptop's graphics control panel. I selected the tab which controlled S-Video output, and changed between the different modes offered. (The PC documentation was terible in this area, but it turned out that there was a mode that showed Videolan as a black rectangle, then displayed video when I changed to a different option)

[Guest]

Yes my problem is the following

Is what you're saying:
the display on the notebook computer looks OK (shows the video), but the output from the S-Video of the laptop shows a black rectangle (you see the outline of the player window, but black inside it) where the Video SW is playing? In other words, you are seeing the laptop display replicated to the S-Video port, just that the Videolan SW part isn't displaying properly.

If it is, I had this happen at work in the lab two weeks ago. For me it turned out that I had the wrong setting on my laptop's video. I use a Dell laptop, with an ATI graphic chipset, S-video output built-in.

My notebook have ATI graphic chipset and S-video output built-in.
But I not found the tab which controlled S-Video as the following solution describe
In my graphics control panel can I select only LCD TV or Monitor display.

I had to have the TV plugged in (an active load on the S_Video output port), then opened my laptop's graphics control panel. I selected the tab which controlled S-Video output, and changed between the different modes offered. (The PC documentation was terible in this area, but it turned out that there was a mode that showed Videolan as a black rectangle, then displayed video when I changed to a different option)

[markfm]

First, it's good to check with your laptop manufacturer, make sure you have the latest video driver software.

Under Windows, with ATI graphics:
-Right click in the display area, select Properties to open Display Properties.
-Click the Settings tab (all the way on the right), then the Advanced button below "Screen Area"
-I have an ATI Radeon graphics chip set -- when I click Advanced it opens up a window with roughly 11 different display control tabs.
-Select the Displays tab. You need to have the S-Video plugged in (a load on it, otherwise the TV monitor option will be greyed out. You want to activate the TV output option (sounds like you already did, just not getting what you want).
-Set the TV to be your Primary display.
You could also press the Help button when on the Displays page -- ATI does a decent job. From their Help information:
"Video Overlay allows for the viewing of full-motion video on your computer. However, there is only one video overlay in hardware. For display arrangements consisting of a primary and a clone, the video overlay is only available on the primary display. (For extended desktop arrangements, the video overlay will be visible across all displays.)

For systems with flat panel and TV support, you cannot set both the flat panel display and TV to the same display mode.

Desktop Help for Windows 2000, © ATI Technologies Inc., Version M3"
Based on the above, it sounds like you could also choose an extended desktop configuration, where the TV output becomes your monitor 2 -- I've never tried that (I've only used Cloning).