Cant play movies on my laptop thru my telly.... any help?

Question

i have my laptop connected to my HD ready TV thru the vga plug, and everything works fine, apart from when i play a movie on the laptop..... everything can be seen on the telly that i can see on the laptop, except the actual picture of the movie... it works on the laptop but not telly... any help?

Answer 1

if you're using windows media player, thats why.

if you change the graphics acceleration on wmp and/or change the video size, it should work.