Page 1 of How do i watch my pc dvd player on my tv?

hi
i have a dvd player in my pc which is multi region and i wonderd how i could watch it on my tv?
any help would be great.

You will probably need one of the hardware decoder cards fitted that allows the composite and SVideo signals to be routed to a TV/projector. Also the Dolby Digital feed is available also.

Or just a video card with TV-out.
I know with the NVidia TNT2 you have to go to 800*600 or 640*480 to allow TV-out to be enabled.

cheers i believe i have one i just need to know what kind of cable i should use to connect the two
ive heard its like a scart lead but i dont know?

My TNT2Ultra came with a cable which plugs in the back of the card and I think outputs s-video, which you could convert to scart if your TV doesn`t have an s-video connector.

i only have one socket which says av out and it is yellow and looks like a phono socket, if that helps and i need to know where to get a cable from?

Hmm, strange that the card didn`t come with one. Where do you live? I can`t say that I`ve ever used my cable or ever see myself using it, so I`d be willing to give it to ya if it`s something you`d find useful.

cheers the only problem is that it is not s video just one phono socket to whatever ,but anyway i live in bolsover deryshire

Ah, well, if there is just a phono socket on the back of your graphics card you should be able to buy a normal SCART to S-video cable. The one with three phono sockets, one for video (which you`d plug in to the graphics card) and two for stereo sound (which you`d plug in to your soundcard or just ignore).

i bought a 3phono to scart and connected it up an nothing happened so do i need to activate something?
or can i just not do it full stop?