How do I get my TV Out to have a seperate vid. signal??

[itchi23]

I've been struggling for the past 6 hours trying to figure out how to get my Gateway 5300 notebook machine to send a seperate video signal to its TV Out jack in the back. I contacted tech support and they were only able to help get the TV out display a clone image of what's on my notebook's screen. I (obvious) want to use the TV out as the video out for VJing. Has anyone run into this? I've reinstalled the drivers 10 times and it's still not working. Here's my machine's specs -
P3 1Ghz
30GB HDD
512 MB Ram
S3 Graphics Savage/IX w/ 8MB video mem
Win XP Home

I original bought this machine for DJing and using in a live audio performance environment, but when I found out it had a TV Out, I now REALLY want to expand and be able to some VJing too.
If this TV Out doesn't work, can I hook up a scan converter to the VGA out and use that as a 2nd monitor?
Sorry, I'm new to the VJ'ing thing - and if there's a FAQ that covers all these questions, I'm more than willing to take a look.
Thanks a whole bunch


-itchi23

[sleepytom]

thats as good as it gets tv-out wise (fullscreen clone of your monitor) on nearly all laptops.

James' software scanconverter will sort you out when its relesed

if not a good hardware scanconverter will also do the job

[infopocalypse]

Yeah I think the S3 savage is the same as in my Toshiba lappie... so we'll know about how well it handles in a tad.

What software do you use? The only one I've had any trouble with insofar is SVI (sorry Morph). Aestesis, ArKaos, and Winamp all tend to do fairly well (15+ fps).

Of note... before people freak about the 15 most dual head cards cheat to get the duplicated image. 15 frames on source a, 15 on source b. I know for a fact that the NVidia's hate anything that's just a single frame.

Project merge is Thursday evening... will have a fairly definative timeline by then.

[Mattbot]

Not all laptops are limited to mirroring the main display; Mac Powerbook G4s (and possibly newer Mac Powerbook G3s too) can output a seperate video signal via a built-in S-Video jack.

[MoRpH]

Just to update on softscan for SVi users... its now working well :)