matt 2007-02-13 06:32
Hi,
I just installed the Dreamscene public preview in Vista. However I can't get Ultramon to work with it. I want one monitor to display a video and the other a picture, but no luck.
Any ideas on getting this working?
Thanks,
Matt
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Christian Studer 2007-02-13 11:16
Are you trying to move a window of the application to the other monitor via UltraMon?
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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matt 2007-02-13 19:41
No, the new Vista Ultimate Extra "Windows DreamScene" allows for HD WMV videos to be used as backgrounds and I'm trying to use DreamScene content as a background on one monitor.
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Christian Studer 2007-02-14 10:06
I don't think that will work, as far as I can tell DreamScene takes over wallpaper rendering, so you would either need to use DreamScene on all monitors, or an UltraMon wallpaper on all monitors.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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matt 2007-02-14 19:39
Do you plan to support DreameScene in a future build?
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dot_Zen 2007-02-15 08:10
Microsoft doesn't fully support "DreamScene", yet. It's still a _PREVIEW_, aka "Beta". So, just give it time, matt.
Also, of interesting note, when using Dreamscene you can't display full screen video overlay, i.e Video via a media player or (I'm supposing) games. That in and of itself should tell you dreamscene isn't ready for prime time. I wouldn't expect Chris to have a solution to that problem at this time, and I doubt that Microsoft could/will have that magnitude of support for multiple monitors when it's lack luster as is.
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matt 2007-02-17 07:07
Of course, I wasn't expecting it now really. I just wondered if there was some easy solution to get it working. However, I haven't had any problems playing full screen video whilst using DreamScene or playing games either.
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url20 2007-05-19 03:13
I am using Vista DreamScene Beta (along with ultramon), and i have not noticed the lack of functionality of fullscreen overlay as you mentioned. Does this mean the issue has been solved? I'm getting near unoticable drain on my system using DreamScene, and can play many videos in media players in fullscreen and windowed mode. As well as using one video in fullscreen on one monitor and another video in full screen on my other monitor, with DreamScene running.
(notice dreamscene stops playing video when you maximize a window on either screen. But if you change the dreamscene video while one monitor holds a fullscreen video/window it WILL play the dreamscene) this suggests full support for full screen overlay in games and media players.
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url20 2007-05-19 03:19
not only that, vista actually lets you span video over both screens, which is amazing if you get a video with the right ratio.
This not only looks really cool, but avoids that common problem of a black video area when dragging video from one screen to another too quickly in XP (or using the 'Move to other monitor' control.)
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