Upon connecting Svideo cable from laptop to TV, video from windows mediaplayer does not appear on TV?
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Windows uses special software to prevent you from doing that.\nThey call it Digital Rights Managment...more like restrictions.\n\ntry\nhttp://www.doom9.org/
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If you have a DVD drive ( I assume you do) just use your windows media player...works flawless. Make sure you update it to the newest version so that you have the newest drivers and codecs available.
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To connect your laptop to a TV, you should get a VGA cable and find a VGA port on your TV. If your TV's new, it'll be no problem\nfinding one. Then just connect it and watch media center and do\nyour Windows business! =)
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Check for DVD Burner or if it is a Codec go to microsoft, do searches and try installing ones that you may need.
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To make the long story short, first uninstall your Windows Media Player, from  add/remove windows components, in your control panel. Once you have donde so go to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/mp10/default.aspx and download it and install it again. This should take care of the problem, and avoid you further waste of time,\n\nGood Luck!
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You need to install either Real Player or Windows media player on your PC
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http://www.av-cables.net/avadapters/av-adapters-svideo.html
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If the PC has a TV card installed with S-video port then this is no problem. If not then connect via coax like mine.\nI have a freeview box connected to mine.\nJust change channels on the freeview but watch on the PC.
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You need a S-Video to composite cable, assuming you have the yellow white and red inputs on your tv.  You're going to change that you're using a composite cable and not an S-Video cable in your drivers or else it will be black and white or it'll be all pink and weird depending on the laptop and the graphics card.  If you need anymore information feel free to email me.\n\nP.S. You can find them here:\nhttp://www.buy.com/prod/startech-6ft-s-video-to-composite-rca-video-cable-m-m-svid2rcamm6/q/loc/101/10399209.html?dcaid=17379
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Is there a setting on the monitor to tell it to use the  S-video input rather than the regular computer video input?
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if you're doing this for portability (and i'm assuming you are.  there is no other good reason to hook your x-box up to your laptop), then check to see what kind of inputs your computer has.  some newer machines have VIVO (Video In/Video Out) jacks on them - usually for S-Video cables).  if you don't have one of those, you'd have to buy an add-on card.  and no, it won't look better on your laptop than it would on your TV.  just a lot smaller.
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In order to be able to see the movie playing on your TV you have to select the TV in the "Device settings". The movie will not play on both the laptop's screen and the TV under dual or clone view. Here's what you have to do under Win XP: Go to Start; Control Panel; Appearance and Themes; Display; Settings; Advanced; select the "tab" for your Graphics card; select "Device Settings"; select TV. For further details read below.\n\nBefore you start, change the display settings to 800 x 600; you need to do this since most TVs will not support higher resolution settings - this is ok, however, since you do not need higher resolution to enjoy your DVDs or to view your monitor's display on your TV. Read below about TV/VGA resolution comparisons. Also, make sure all of the hardware is connected before turning on the computer; you may have trouble getting the video card to recognize the TV as the second monitor - the option on some Dells is to change to "Clone" in Nview. But "Clone" is grayed out unless you have the RCA connector on the far end of the "S to RCA" cable, terminated in a VCR or TV.\n\n1. Connect the "S-Video™ to RCA" cable or the "Pro S-Video™ to 3 RCA" cable to the "S-video out" of the computer and to the "video in" (yellow RCA jack) on the TV. NOTE: This step must be performed before you start up the computer. Make sure that your TV is set to "recognize" the RCA/yellow video-in jack; you may have to play with the "aux 1", "aux 2", or "line-in" selections on the TV or the TV's remote control. The S-Video jack on your computer may be a 4-pin or 7-pin jack that is usually on the back of the computer, as in the "TV-out" connector (# 2) on this diagram of the IBM ThinkPad T2X.\n\nWe will first describe the procedures for machines running Windows XP:\n\n- Click on Start, Control Panel.\n\n- Click on Display\n\n- Click on Settings\n\n- Slide the "Screen resolution" area slider bar toward Less until the setting reads 800 x 600. OK, you may not like how your screen looks at this setting after usig high-res settings, but you'll certainly enjoy your DVD on your TV!!! You can always change the res back when not playing DVDs.\n\n- Click Apply\n\n- Press the FN key and your computer's corresponding "F-number" key. For instance, on some Toshiba laptops you press the FN+F5 simultaneously four times to get the TV-Out setting. The "FN" key is a short-cut key on most laptop keyboards. Note, the combination keys that you may have to press depend on your laptop. Here's a brief list: Acer Fn+F3; Dell Fn+F8; Fujitsu Fn+F5; Gateway Fn+F3; HP Fn+F5; IBM Fn+F1 or +F3, +F7 +F8; NEC Fn+F3; Panasonic Fn+F2; Samsung Fn+F4 or F5 or F6; Sharp Fn+F5; Sony Fn+F7; and Toshiba Fn+F5 or +F7.\n\n- Start playing your movie or presentation.\n\n- There may be additional adjustments that may be required. If the TV display is shifted to the right with a black vertical bar on the left side you will have to perform additional settings. Joshua T. has the following suggestions: "The computer runs Windows XP Pro and has a "Radeon IGP 345M", which I believe is made by ATI. Under 'Display Properties', 'Settings', 'Advanced', 'Displays', click the "TV" button, then 'Adjustments' tab. There you will find options to change the vertical/horizontal size and position. Once you have switched over to use the tv you can simply adjust these settings while you watch the display on the television to get it looking the way you like."\n\nProcedures for Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows Me, or Microsoft Windows 2000:\n\nNOTE: To use the TV as the primary display with the dual display function, you need to enable the TV setting every time you start your computer.\n\n2. Click Start, point to Settings, sele
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Unfortunately you can't.\nThe video-outs you have are the only ones you can use, so you are limited to the laptop monitor and one external is you have a VGA or S-video output.
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yes - either an external USB tuner, or an internal PCI tuner - OR a PCMCIA TV tuner for a laptop - or some AGP video cards in desktops have TV tuners built in - either way - you need the hardware to view video signals on your PC
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Close any instances of older versions of Windows Media Player if you have those running.  Also make sure you have enough disk space to install the program.  I'm not sure, but you might also have to be connected to the internet during the installation.  Make sure your connection is not dropping.
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have a video card with tv out feature it suppose to come along with a connector for that so you can attached it to your tv, if you lost it you gonna buy a svideo connector it cost you around $10
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There is a driver issue. Re-install Windows Media Player.