Christopher Martin 2005-12-03 01:12
I recently bought 2 19"LCDs and have them connected to a GeForce 6600 AGP card. For two applications, they work fine, but I have some questions:
1. How do I span video across both monitors? I have horizontal spanning enabled via nVidia.
2. Is there a good video player that will allow saved movies and/or DVDs to play in a widescreen format across both monitors? When I use PowerDVD 4.0 in horizontal spanning - I get a tiny widescreen on my secondary display and cropped fullscreen on my primary display.
3. Additionally, does anyone have any advice in setting up games to support dual monitors? Perhaps I need three monitors (doubt the wife would allow that) but in stuff like NWN or Morrowind, the part where the monitors join really destroys the bonus to more video realestate.
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justmoon 2005-12-03 05:49
Try using VLC, it has native support for image walls.
Go Settings > VIdeo > Filters > Image wall
(You should be able to get it working with other players, too, but I can't tell you how.)
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Christopher Martin 2005-12-03 22:34
What is VLC and where can I find it?
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sircle 2005-12-03 22:43
VLC is the coolest thing since sliced bread.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
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Christopher Martin 2005-12-08 04:45
Downloaded VLC and installed - still no luck.
Does anyone know how to span video across two monitors in an effort to make one very large widescreen?
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jbigger 2005-12-08 09:36
I also downloaded it. I see the video wall option
but it doesn't seem to do anything.
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Shmee150 2005-12-14 22:25
Hi,
I had this problem with a 7800GTX, and I can't really remember the precise details but something to do with whether the two screens were being detected by the windows settings or the nvidia settings. A lot of fiddling got me into a horizontal span and dvds open full screen. Another slight piece of advice is that to watch something across both screens, i'm not sure if this is a standard problem, but i've found that I have to open another video file in the background. Say I must open a .avi file in Windows Media Player before I open a DVD in PowerDVD to watch full screen. Weird problem I know!
ShMeE
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