The VideoLAN Forums

Hi auralarh! I still hope there is something better than DirectX - I know very little about all the technical aspects. Just last week I had to present a hi-res video to a large audience and DirectX did not correctly resize the video to the screen - on the righthandside about 30% was cut off - no mat...

If you send your Output to DirectX, you may select DISPLAY2. Try: Tools -> Advanced Preferences (-> Show settings = All) -> Video -> Output modules and then on the right-hand side select "Video output modules " = "DirectX (DirectDraw) video output " Tools -> Advanced Preferences ...

I managed to get VLC 2.1.3 on Windows 7 to open the video display on DirectX DISPLAY2.
Older versions (after 1.1.7) didn't work.

Is there a way for me to export my settings to you?

Jon, To have all your controls on 1 screen and just the video on an external monitor, try v. 2.1.3 with DirectX where you can select the DISPLAY number: Tools -> Advanced Preferences (-> Show settings = All) -> Video -> Output modules and then on the right-hand side select "Video output modules...

Hi Matt! It seems the bug with DirectX has been fixed in 2.1.3 Rincewind. So I can upgrade from v. 1.1.7 where it used to work. However, the problem of getting the videos full screen on the projector seems to be slightly worse with 2.1.3 than 1.1.7: In 1.1.7 I could just hit F twice to have the vide...

Thanks for the call Matt. You said that I should go Preferences -> Interface -> Main interface -> Qt, and then look on the right for "Define which screen fullscreen goes". I played with that setting from -2, -1, 0, 1, and 2, but the fullscreen video always goes to the monitor designated by...

OK, I discovered that Qt has nothing to do with QuickTime. I changed my main interface from Default to Qt and activated the extra qt4 interface. Restarted. Spent an hour looking but I still can't find the "advanced Qt preferences" or a place to select "Define which Screen Fullscreen G...

Thanks Jean. I understand that Preferences -> Interface -> "Show controls in full screen mode" should be un-selected. (Is it related to the "Embedded video" setting?) I see it can also be done by the keyboard shortcut "Show controller in fullscreen" (hotkey is i) Howeve...

Hi Jean-Baptiste, I would like to have a simple method to configure VLC as follows: On a Windows PC with an external (dual monitor) projector connected Run VLC on the Windows primary monitor but when a video is played it should display on the secondary monitor (projector) in full screen mode with no...

Oh no!
Other than "reinstall", I have no advice.

But thanks for trying VLC Show - now I won't!

From my perspective, our need is so simple and common, I can not understand why we can get it....
Do we perhaps lack some understanding?

I see genius JordanN did develop a front end for VLC at sourceforge.net/projects/vlc-show
and though it is old, it still seems to get positive reviews.
Try it and tell me...
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vlc-show/

I could not find the info in the wiki or forum. I followed the advice at http://www.inlet.co.nz/tutorials/microsoft/46-vlc-2-0-2-dual-monitor-full-screen-playback-in-windows It worked fine on a Windows Vista laptop connected to a projector using VLC 1.1.11 and DirectX However if I upgrade to VLC 2.1...

I followed the advice at http://www.inlet.co.nz/tutorials/microsoft/46-vlc-2-0-2-dual-monitor-full-screen-playback-in-windows I could not find the info in the wiki or forum. It worked fin on a Windows Vista laptop connected to a projector using VLC 1.1.11 and DirectX However if I upgrade to VLC 2.1....