<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Robert P. J. Day <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rpjday@crashcourse.ca">rpjday@crashcourse.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
ok, as a followup to my previous post, i slapped f9 on<br>
my inspiron, then VLC and associated RPMs, popped in a DVD,<br>
it plays nicely on the laptop.<br>
<br>
then, connected an external (samsung WUXGA) flat-panel<br>
monitor via DVI, and the entire laptop display is reflected<br>
nicely on the monitor *except* for the actual DVD image in<br>
the VLC window -- that just shows up as blank, either in<br>
regular or fullscreen mode (in fullscreen mode, the entire<br>
external display is blank, even while the movie is playing<br>
on the laptop).<br>
<br>
i'm no expert at video so, somehow, the DVD image is<br>
not being passed out on DVI, while everything else is.<br>
thoughts? is there a VLC setting to tweak this? this is<br>
a dell inspiron 9200 so it's a fairly old system -- at<br>
least a couple years. but until now, running external<br>
displays off that DVI port has worked just fine. so<br>
why is the DVD video content being treated this way?<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>I do not think it is a problem with vlc. There should be a video overlay issue:<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_overlay">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_overlay</a><br><br>
What graphics card and which driver do you have?<br> </div></div><br>-- <br>Paulo Roma Cavalcanti<br>LCG - UFRJ<br>