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Video Card S Video Ouput

Apr 11, 2005 7:25AM PDT

I just purchased an S video cord to connect my laptop to my TV. It works fine except for the fact that videos do not show on the tv. Quicktime movies will show but windows media, avi, etc do not. I tried putting a DVD in my computer and that displayed perfectly on the TV. Is there any reason my other video files dont show? Theres just a black box on the TV where the video should be...

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