vlc-playing DVD won't display on external monitor

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>wrote:

>  ok, as a followup to my previous post, i slapped f9 on
> my inspiron, then VLC and associated RPMs, popped in a DVD,
> it plays nicely on the laptop.
>
>  then, connected an external (samsung WUXGA) flat-panel
> monitor via DVI, and the entire laptop display is reflected
> nicely on the monitor *except* for the actual DVD image in
> the VLC window -- that just shows up as blank, either in
> regular or fullscreen mode (in fullscreen mode, the entire
> external display is blank, even while the movie is playing
> on the laptop).
>
>  i'm no expert at video so, somehow, the DVD image is
> not being passed out on DVI, while everything else is.
> thoughts?  is there a VLC setting to tweak this?  this is
> a dell inspiron 9200 so it's a fairly old system -- at
> least a couple years.  but until now, running external
> displays off that DVI port has worked just fine.  so
> why is the DVD video content being treated this way?
>
>
I do not think it is a problem with vlc. There should be a video overlay
issue:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_overlay

What graphics card and which driver do you have?


-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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