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Anonymous   05-06-2002 at 05:22:27 AM

Hey thanks alot people i have taken care of the video probs. It seems my card will only let me play vids on one of the two screens, i just had to set it up to play them on the TV instead of my LCD. And i think the mini stereo jack in my headphone port will do the trick.
Thanks guys

Richard_Nixon



Hey guys i got a little prob,
Okay i have the Mobility Radeon 7500 with 64 megs of RAM. I am trying to pipe it out to my TV. I bought the cables and all and gave it a whirl. The only thing is, i cant get any sound to come over the TV, and it wont show movies other than those in quicktime. But i can see everything on my desktop. Any ideas or suggestions would be nice.

Richard Nixon

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Richard_Nixon on 05/07/02 01:40 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

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labdog   05-07-2002 at 12:13:19 AM
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for the sound you have to plug an jack/RCA cable between your sound card & your tv (or an RCA/RCA one if its requires).
the other s-video cable bring just the video signal but not the sound.


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labdog   05-07-2002 at 12:25:09 AM
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it wont show movies other than those in quicktime. But i can see everything on my desktop.


this can be 1 of those 2 assumptions:

1- you havent plug the correct video cable between your graphics card & your TV or its a wrong one.
2- you have a gc driver or software setting issue.

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and it wont show movies other than those in quicktime.


& this is puzzling me?!?
weird phenomena, i think i dont clearly understand your meanings.
can you precise them a little then also your video tests?


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Crashman   05-07-2002 at 03:01:54 AM
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Ok Tricky Dick, for sound use a Stereo Minijack to Dual RCA adapter cable, should cost around $4 at most stores that have it, or $8 at Radio Shack. Plug the minijack into your headphone jack and the other ends into the audio inputs of the device you're connecting to.
Now, there is a good reason why you can't play DVD's to your TV through your VCR-it's called Macrovision copy protection, when the ATI card detects a recordable device it probably cuts the signal so you can't make VHS copies of DVD's. In order to get around that, you must hook your S-Video diretly to the TV.

Or you could use illegal equipement or illegal proceedures on legal equipement to disable Macrovision Copy Protection.

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

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labdog   05-07-2002 at 03:44:12 AM
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when the ATI card detects a recordable device it probably cuts the signal so you can't make VHS copies of DVD's. In order to get around that, you must hook your S-Video diretly to the TV.


im not agree.

the ATI card dont cut the signal out to your VCR but send a special tag signal to your VCR indicating a copy violation.
(even with a Macrovision protected DVD, you can see it directly on your TV or through your VCR)
this is just when you try to record it on your VCR, the VCR integrated Macrovision system crypts the video signal which is then recorded to your VHS & obviously this VHS isnt readable.


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Crashman   05-07-2002 at 06:15:20 AM
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Well, my ATI card simply passes a bad signal to the TV through the VCR, and that happens EVEN IF YOU'RE NOT RECORDING. But if it uses a different TV-out chip, such as certain Chronetels, the Player program will detect a non-compliant TV-Out chip and BLOCK THE SIGNAL as seen on many GeForce2 cards.

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labdog   05-09-2002 at 01:34:11 AM
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well, can you explain me how the gc can distinguish with the same gc tv-out connector if there is a TV plugged into or a VCR?
(this involving a cutting or crypting signal for the VCR & a pass through signal for the TV)


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Crashman   05-09-2002 at 05:37:21 AM
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I give, most don't. Most block ALL tv-out signals regardless of the connected device whenever Macrovision is present in a non-Macrovision compliant TV-Out chip. Fixes for that problem trick the program into thinking a Macrovision compliant TV-Out chip. It was the VCR that blocked signals when Macrovision was present, giving the typical VCR Blue Screen. I was wrong, you win!

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

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