[xine-user] Re: Radeon9700, ati driver 3.2.8, tvout problems (black rectangle)

[James S. <jst...@fa...>]

Hi,

Dexter Filmore wrote:
> When I put TV into clone mode and play a movie with xine, I get video
> output on the CRT, on the TV there's the desktop alright but the video
> output window is just a black rectangle.

The usual problem is that the video card only has one back end scaler, and in 
this case it is being used to overlay onto the primary output. I believe the 
vesa driver in mplayer can force output to both outputs, you'd probably want 
to rtfm to find out about that ;)

James.