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I have a macbook hooked up to an HDTV via mini-DVI/SVideo. I use VLC on the HDTV.

I can watch videos just fine when they are windowed and stretched, but enabling full screen playback causes VLC to play the movie on my laptop screen (primary monitor), not the HDTV. Is this a setting or a bug or something else?

Mirroring is not an option as it tends to mess with my desktop and prevent me from doing other things with my laptop when enabled, I want to be able to fill the 2nd monitor with video, not the first.

I can give dumps or whatever is necessary to trace this, if you like.

I really enjoy all the work you guys have contributed to VLC and would someday like to help out in some way.

I have this working fine on my iMac.

Here are the settings I have. (Make sure you check the advanced button)

Preferences -> Interface -> -> Main Interfaces -> macosx ->
Embedded video output (Checked)
Show fullscreen controller (Checked)
Remember wizard options (Checked)
Video device (2)
Stretch video to fill window (Unchecked)
Opaqueness (1)
Black screens in fullscreens (unchecked)
Crop borders in fullscreen (unchecked)
Use as Desktop Background (Unchecked)

Preferences -> Video ->
Enable video (Checked)
Grayscal video output (Unchecked)
Fullscreen video output (Checked)
Drop late frames (Checked)
Skip frames (Checked)
Quiet synchro (Unchecked)
Always on top (Unchecked)
Disable screensaver (Checked)
Video snapshot directory (or filename) (Blank)
Display video snapshot preview (Checked)
Use sequential numbers instead of timestamps (Unchecked)
Video width (-1)
Video height (-1)
Video X coordinate (-1)
Video Y coordinate (-1)
Video cropping (Blank)
Custom crop rations list (Blank)
Source aspect ratio (Blank)
Monitor pixel aspect ratio (Blank)
Custom aspect ratios list (Blank)
Fix HDTV height (Checked)
Window decorations (Checked)
Video title (Blank)
Video alignment (Center)
Zoom video (1)

Try these and let me know if it helps.

-Todd