Displaying MPEG on a TV

vmpoulsen · Post by **vmpoulsen** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 7:47 pm

I have a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 video capture card and a BFG Asylum FX5200 video card. The latter has a TV Out which I have connected to my television. With this setup, my television normally displays everything that is visible on my computer monitor (albeit, in a lower resolution). The exception is MPEG video. When I play an MPEG in Windows Media Player (for instance), Media Player is visible on the television but its display screen is black; the MPEG plays normally on the monitor. (The same is true for any MPEG application). I can use WinTV 2000 to watch a television show; but if I record the same show (into MPEG), I have to watch it on the computer for the reason described above. What's going on here?

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 10:31 pm

I simplify this a bit.

TV's are not designed to display mpeg. If your PC did not have the right decoder for the mpeg file present, MediaPlayer would not play mpeg either. Your TV is not capable to utilize an mpeg encoder.

The only way to watch mpegs on a TV is to author these to DVD. Your mpeg file is thus converted to a number of files, IFO, BUP and VOB files which, when played on a DVD player, give all the instructions on how to display this to your TV.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 12:07 am

WinTV2000 will also play an MPEG file.
Click the Record Button to bring up the dialog box that appears below the onscreen 'TV Display' then click the yellow button on the right.

(ignore the arrows - the picture was for another article)

vmpoulsen · Post by **vmpoulsen** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 12:20 pm

Thank you for your assistance sjj1805 and heinz-oz. I posted the same question at a VideoReDo (a wonderful MPEG editor) forum and got the solution I was looking for. Check it out.

http://www.videoredo.net/msgBoard/showt ... #post19163

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 10:51 pm

Thanks for sharing that with us, vmpoulsen.

One never stops learning. I never came accross this problem because my MATROX Parhelia card handles that whithout intervention. I never use the MediaPlayer to play mpeg files to TV though. I watch my editing previews from MSP on a TV rather then the PC monitor.