Its a common problem of the video hardware in the laptop - it hasnt the ability to split the video "overlay" (often its decoded by something in the video chip, or at least a seperate bit of software and output seperate from the usual, slower windows & images data stream) off to the second screen & you just see the frame of the player.
if you set the external output to be the main/primary, or sometimes only active screen, it should work. you might also have a chance if you make it an extended desktop rather than a cloned one, then moving the player window entirely onto the projector's "screen"
Addendum to this: If you can make the player START on the external display - or even launch it WITHOUT a video playing or loaded on the internal screen, and move it across to the external before loading or playing anything (make sure all parts are fully transferred, nothing remaining on the internal display), then it MIGHT then work. I do know Windows really hates moving active video windows between physical screens, and flat out refuses to "split" video between them in most cases, especially with mobile chipsets.
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If the problem is what I describe as a blue haze over the entire image projected, I was told this is a defect in the cable - we have a Dell Video Projector 2300 - and it takes only a dell VGA cable.
So, the problem is in the cable - solution is replace cable.
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