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Sheryl 2004-02-19 14:31
Our church has an ATI Radeon 7000 card installed on a Windows ME operating system with multi-desktop setup enabled. I want to be able to play a DVD on the secondary monitor (the big screen behind the stage using a projector), but when I use a hotkey to switch to the secondary display, the DVD goes black, when I switch it back, it plays great on the primary monitor.
The only way it will play on the screen is if I make that the primary monitor, but then all my control & dialog boxes also show up on the big screen. We're using WinDVD as our player. I know there are a number of posts about not being able to play a game on one monitor and run a DVD on another, but we just want to be able to run the DVD player by itself on the secondary monitor. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Sheryl
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Christian Studer 2004-02-20 06:21
This should work fine with a DVD player which supports running on secondary monitors, I have only tested on XP though.
See the FAQ for a list of DVD players which can run on secondary monitors.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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m2h 2004-02-24 20:30
I haven't used an ATI card in awhile. But check your overlay settings and set the fullscreen overlay output to the secondary output. Then you should be able play the DVD in a window or fullscreen on the primary monitor, and the secondary monitor will always show any video fullscreen.
This is the setup I am using currently with a nVidia card and two monitors, but one monitor is across my room which is mainly used for watching TV through a line doubler (composit/svideo to VGA, with VGA passthrough to use as a second monitor for watching any videos played back from my computer with a native overlay resolution for crisper happier quality). :)
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