ATI Radeon Dual Head with TV-out

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Hi,

I'm using the ATI Proprietary Linux driver fglrx-driver v8.28.8-4 under
Debian Testing, xorg 7.1.0-8.

I managed to get the Dual Head working with

 aticonfig --initial=dual-head

However, I am not able to make the mplayer play the movie on my TV. 

I.e., I can get my desktop to run fine on both displays, but when I run
mplayer, xawtv, etc ... it runs fine on the monitor and on the TV or
external display it just displays a green screen.

I've done an extensive search, and found the answer myself:

>From TV-out with ATI Radeon Video Cards
http://fedoranews.org/contributors/youssef_makki/tvout/

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Mplayer only play the movie on the 'Primary' screen, you'll only see a blank
mplayer window on the other display.
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So I followed the advice to make my TV as Primary screen by adding the
following line to the device section. 

    Option "MonitorLayout"              "STV,CRT"

But still, my CRT is loaded as Primary screen, and mplayer won't play movies
on my TV:

 $ grep 'Connected Display' /var/log/Xorg.1.log
 (II) fglrx(0): Connected Display1: CRT on primary DAC
 (II) fglrx(0): Connected Display2: TV on TVDAC

Any helpful information would be appreciated.

thanks a lot

PS. 

Relevant part of my xorg.conf

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Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "X.org Configured"
	Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
	Screen         "aticonfig-Screen[1]" LeftOf "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]"
	Driver      "fglrx"
	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"

        Option      "RenderAccel" "true"
        Option       "UseInternalAGPGART"    "no"
        Option       "KernelModuleParm"      "agplock=0"
        Option      "NoLogo" "true"
        Option      "HWCursor" "true"

#    Option "PseudoColorVisuals"         "off"
    Option "MonitorLayout"              "STV,CRT"
#    Option "BlockSignalsOnLock"         "on"
#Option "Mode2"         "1024x768"
Option "ForceMonitors" "STV,CRT"
EndSection
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