Vga problem

[kingy17]

Hi i have a old laptop that i am trying to work through my tv. I have plugged the cable from the laptop vga socket and plugged it into the tv. Everything shows on the tv so no problems there, its when i come to watch a video it plays on the laptop screen but not on the tv.

I was thinking its to do with codecs but it plays on laptop fine?

[sattboy]

Hi i have a old laptop that i am trying to work through my tv. I have plugged the cable from the laptop vga socket and plugged it into the tv. Everything shows on the tv so no problems there, its when i come to watch a video it plays on the laptop screen but not on the tv.

I was thinking its to do with codecs but it plays on laptop fine?

hi m8

nothing to do with codecs do you have laptop on the right extention to the tv i.e is it hooked up via vga or have you got it on through hdmi cable other than that i dont know m8.

[toenee]

Do you have your display settings of the secondary monitor setup as a extended desktop or a clone? If its extended, maybe you just need to drag the video player window onto the secondary monitor. And what video software player are you using? VLC?

[kingy17]

i got it sorted, basically i cant have the laptop showing on the screen and also on the tv at the same time to view a video, so i pressed for lcd only in the settings and laptop screen went off and it appeared fine in media player on the tv