vlc-playing DVD won't display on external monitor
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Thu Oct 23 16:36:08 UTC 2008
Quoting "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>:
> 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?
>
> rday
ok, i just realized what the problem is -- the onboard
video simply isn't powerful enough to display the playing
movie both on the laptop display and on the external display,
so i simply need to disable the laptop display. and one
would think this would be easy -- there is a blue "CRT/LCD"
on F8, leading me to conclude that a simple Fn/F8 should do
it.
sadly, that key combo has no effect. how odd, since it's
*exactly* what i want to do -- disable onboard video and
drive external video. i will now google, but if someone knows
how to get that on an inspiron 9200, i am *so* interested
in hearing it.
rday
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