Christian Studer 2001-06-20 11:20
This is mostly a software issue. I'm not sure about the TV tuner, but DVD certainly works on secondary monitors, with the right software.
I tested this on my laptop, ATI RAGE MOBILITY as primary card, a Margi Display-to-Go as secondary. WinDVD can't play on the secondary monitor (it even crashes if the Display-to-Go is present), but using a DVD player from Microsoft (a sample for software developers), I could watch fullscreen DVD on the Display-to-Go with no problems at all.
Most likely you won't be able to use any special hardware acceleration for DVD playback that your primary card provides, but with a fast CPU this shouldn't be a problem.
A fullscreen video/DVD player with multi-monitor support is planned for UltraMon, no release date has been set yet.
Christian Studer
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