Cant view moniter and t.v. at the same time.

[Guest_imported]

i recently bought an s-video and sound cables for my pc to view movies on.
But i can only select tv or moniter, not both, and i need someone in the next room to tell me where to put the mous

Where can i find softare to view my pc and t.v. at the same time?

 

[mudskipper]

Now, I may be incorrect, but I don't believe that you will find the software to do what you wish. I would imagine that this is a hardware issue.

Some video cards will allow you to view both, and others will allow one at a time.

If you have to, rather than run the TV off of the S-video cable, you can run both of them off of the standard SVGA plug (i am assuming that you have a desktop-not a laptop).

You can buy a splitter and a scan converter. A scan converter will just convert the SVGA signal from your video card to NTSC for TV. You can get them with S-video....

The splitter just connects to your video card. One side of the splitter cable will go to your monitor, while the other one goes into the scan converter. Go from the scan converter to your TV.

--or--
If you have a little TV laying around with an s-video plug, simply split off of the s-video from the video card and set the little TV next to your monitor

--or--
If you don't like the price on a scan converter, then you might look specifically for a video card that will handle both outputs at once!


Anybody out there have another idea? ----------------------------------------
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[Guest_imported]

If you are using an Nvidia based card its normal. Nvidia's driver support is very basic for tv out, the ramdac configuration prevents tv-out and svga output at the same time. There is however a way to override this. Download a program called TV Tool, version 5.5 or greator should work just fine. It overrides nvidia's basic driver support for tv out and allows superior control of the tv out... ie view monitor and tv at the same time. There's a free version of TV Tool but it only works for 15 minutes (maybe 5 I don't remember) the full version is like 30 bucks. Its a superior program and allows for 640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768 tv output (providing the tv supports it). Give it a shot, and no I don't work for TV Tool .

 

[CapsMan]

In a dream I saw you with a Matrox's Parhelia-512 Video Card

http://shopmatrox.com/europe/products/datasheet.asp?ID=132&currencyid=3&cid=224

It has triple screen desktop mode, brill!
The price £269.

Then I awoke! CapsMan.
The Computer Unprofessional.

 

[mudskipper]

thanks, mitsutuner93 for that info! Did not know you could do that! ----------------------------------------
Groucho Marx said it best...
"A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five."