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Why Can't I Display Movies (WMV, DVD, etc) On Projected Screen?

I am using an Acer Aspire 5100-3583 Notebook. AMD Turion 64, ATI Radeon Express (share 128mb), 1 GB DDR2. There is no problem with my notebook. My driver is uptodate (according to windows update). The spreadsheet, movies, and others are working fine. But when I connect my notebook to an LCD Projector. It won't display movies (wmv, 3gp, dvd, etc). Everything is fine, but just there is this empty, black, and blank screen. The movies (the picture) won't show up. Just the sound. But the funny thing is, if I try to convert to the other format (as far as I know it works only with FLV - flash movie) it would show up. But the quality of the picture is horrible. This problem has been bugging me for months. Please help for anybody who understands. I have asked microsoft vendor. They said, well it is just like that >.<.

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1. I don't think you can, I've always had the same issue. I'm pretty sure the screen on a projector doesn't update fast enough...usually I just take stills if I need a movie for a presentation and make a powerpoint document out of it...
2. We play DVD's through a Compaq laptop onto a projection screen without any problems. The NC610 laptop just sends all the output that would normally go to the LCD panel to the projector. I have a feeling the problem is with your projector not your computer. It's possible the projector isn't capable of playback at enough frames per second to display movies. Either that, or you have a bad setting in your playback software. Remember that when you play DVDs and AVIs etc, it's a hardware layer over the software layer maybe these are not being sent to the projector.