T23 S-Video Output

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Andersonjoe711 · #1 Post by **Andersonjoe711** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 1:44 pm

Last year, I tinkered around with the S-Video output, on my T23. I noticed that it acted similar to an Averkey (Teachers had them at my High School). The problem was, that it was clipping off part of the screen, and the resolution wasn't too good. I was also hoping to use it to play a video, or DVD onto a TV, but I couldn't find a way for it to just output video, instead of my screen.

Is this a lost cause, or am I just not doing sometihing right?

Stargate199 · #2 Post by **Stargate199** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 4:12 pm

What the S-video out does is only show the section of the screen that will fit natively on a TV (720x480 pixels I believe.) If you move your mouse around, you will notice that the TV picture will "follow" where your mouse goes. As for the low resolution, or poor picture quality (more description would be helpful) it could be a bad s-video cable.

truk · #3 Post by **truk** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:25 pm

There are two things you can try to get rid of this problem (assuming your screen moves like as said in the above post.)

#1 You can try using the utility that is supplied by IBM (Lenovo) by setting up an "SVideo out" profile. This is what I do and I've never had problems.

#2 You can try going in to the display settings (in XP: right-click>properties>Settings) and setting the second monitor (SVideo) as primary and turning off the LCD. It might also help to try decreasing the resolution of the SVideo there.

Andersonjoe711 · #4 Post by **Andersonjoe711** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:26 pm

#1 You can try using the utility that is supplied by IBM (Lenovo) by setting up an "SVideo out" profile. This is what I do and I've never had problems.

What exactly is the name of that utility?

The Spirit of X21 · #5 Post by **The Spirit of X21** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 11:34 pm

I believe that utility would be Presentation Director:

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-46022

Andersonjoe711 · #6 Post by **Andersonjoe711** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:08 pm

Follow up: I downloaded the presentation director, and i figured out how to change the resolution of the picture on the TV, and now it works (near) perfectly!

racerz · #7 Post by **racerz** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 7:22 am

The Spirit of X21 wrote:I believe that utility would be Presentation Director:

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-46022

Website must have been down yesterday, everything seems to be connecting today.

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