The latest instalment of Seth's inability to sort out technical issues comes in the form of wrestling with monitors for my laptop.
My existing laptop screen being on the fritz and very unreliable, I've plugged in an old colour monitor which is working just fine for most things... apart from video. When I watch video it plays fine on the laptop screen (when it's working) but just shows up as a black empty space on the second monitor.
It's probably worth reminding us all of the technical specifications of your laptop - just cos I know that ibooks' visual output just mirrors what is going onto the screen, so any problems getting an image on your laptop screen is unlikely to be solved by using an external monitor...
Getting an image on the second monitor is fine, even when the laptop screen flickers. It's probably down to a faulty connection in the laptop screen but I've been told it'll cost a bomb to replace/fix.
It's just video that's the problem. On the laptop screen, fine. On the second monitor, black rectangle. On the happy occasions when the laptop screen works it's all good, when it doesn't I can't watch Bleach like I'm designed to do.
Try switching to just the 2nd screen, and this will free up processor power. Should be Function F-something (the one with a picture of 1 or 2 screens on it. It will cycle through a different combination of screens each press). I had the same issue with a laptop playing video through a video projector.
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Heh. This is probably the number one video complaint I see at work. Well, perhaps number two after "I can't see anything on my screen because I've told it to display to the projector but not switched the projector on". It seems mainly to trouble old Toshiba laptops - I've not noticed it on newer Toshibas or on IBMs or Dells. Must be some video card peculiarity.
