movie and dvd playback problems

[mike]

I recently connected my desktop monitor to my laptop,
combining the monitor's much better resolution with the
notebook's power. However, now, when I try to playback
videos -- from CDs or DVDs (using WinDVD)-- the movies run
just fine on the laptop screen, but the monitor screen is
blank. Other images -- including jpegs, mpegs, video
games, etc. -- do show on both monitors, as do other
programs. I haven't been able to configure so that I only
have the one screen (preferably the monitor) showing. I've
unsuccessfully tried to reset the display to make the
monitor the default screen. Anybody got any suggestions?

 

[Guest]

What video card are you running?

But with the information I have from you, I can tell you
that your answer will be found in the "settings" tab of
the display control panel. there should be a primary
(laptop screen) and a secondary (external monitor
attached) monitor and your answer will be found by
fiddling with those

But do reply with your video card type, I might be able
to help out more with that info