2nd Monitor - only sound/video black

[aitte]

Hi,

I'm on 2.1 and have a black video as soon as I move VLC to my second screen. I tried to select my second screen (Desktop extended) manually in the display device list in the DirectX option, but there's only the option "default". Yesterday I could select either //display1 or //display2.

I don't know what happened. I have no problems playing videos using other players. Reinstalling didn't help.

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dxva2.lo debug: D3dCreateDevice succeed dxva2.lo debug: OurDirect3DCreateDeviceManager9 Success! dxva2.lo info: obtained IDirect3DDeviceManager9 dxva2.lo info: DXVA2CreateVideoService Success! dxva2.lo debug: - 'MPEG-2 inverse discrete cosine transform' is supported by hardware dxva2.lo debug: - 'MPEG-2 & MPEG-1 variable-length decoder' is supported by hardware dxva2.lo debug: - 'MPEG-2 variable-length decoder' is supported by hardware dxva2.lo debug: - 'MPEG-1 variable-length decoder' is supported by hardware dxva2.lo debug: - 'VC-1 variable-length decoder' is supported by hardware dxva2.lo debug: - 'VC-1 variable-length decoder' is supported by hardware dxva2.lo debug: - 'VC-1 inverse discrete cosine transform' is supported by hardware dxva2.lo debug: - 'Windows Media Video 9 IDCT' is supported by hardware dxva2.lo warning: - Unknown GUID = 32FCFE3F-de46-4a49-XXXX dxva2.lo warning: - Unknown GUID = D79BE8DA-0cf1-4c81-XXXX dxva2.lo warning: - Unknown GUID = F9AACCBB-c2b6-4cfc-XXXX dxva2.lo debug: - 'H.264 variable-length decoder, no film grain technology' is supported by hardware dxva2.lo debug: - 'MPEG-4 Part 2 variable-length decoder, Simple Profile' is supported by hardware dxva2.lo debug: - 'MPEG-4 Part 2 variable-length decoder, Simple&Advanced Profile, no GMC' is supported by hardware dxva2.lo debug: - 'MPEG-4 Part 2 nVidia bitstream decoder' is supported by hardware dxva2.lo warning: - Unknown GUID = B194EB52-19a0-41f0-XXXX dxva2.lo debug: Trying to use 'H.264 variable-length decoder, no film grain technology' as input dxva2.lo debug: NV12 is supported for output dxva2.lo debug: Using 'H.264 variable-length decoder, no film grain technology' to decode to 'NV12' main debug: using hw decoder module "dxva2.lo" avcodec debug: Available decoder output format 61 (dxva2_vld) avcodec info: Using DXVA2 (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460, vendor 4318(NVIDIA), device 3618, revision 161) for hardware decoding. main debug: looking for hw decoder module matching "any": 1 candidates dxva2.lo debug: DLLs loaded dxva2.lo debug: D3dCreateDevice succeed dxva2.lo debug: OurDirect3DCreateDeviceManager9 Success! dxva2.lo info: obtained IDirect3DDeviceManager9 dxva2.lo info: DXVA2CreateVideoService Success! dxva2.lo debug: - 'MPEG-2 inverse discrete cosine transform' is supported by hardware dxva2.lo debug: - 'MPEG-2 & MPEG-1 variable-length decoder' is supported by hardware dxva2.lo debug: - 'MPEG-2 variable-length decoder' is supported by hardware dxva2.lo debug: - 'MPEG-1 variable-length decoder' is supported by hardware dxva2.lo debug: - 'VC-1 variable-length decoder' is supported by hardware dxva2.lo debug: - 'VC-1 variable-length decoder' is supported by hardware dxva2.lo debug: - 'VC-1 inverse discrete cosine transform' is supported by hardware dxva2.lo debug: - 'Windows Media Video 9 IDCT' is supported by hardware dxva2.lo warning: - Unknown GUID = 32FCFE3F-de46-4a49-XXXX dxva2.lo warning: - Unknown GUID = D79BE8DA-0cf1-4c81-XXXX dxva2.lo warning: - Unknown GUID = F9AACCBB-c2b6-4cfc-XXXX dxva2.lo debug: - 'H.264 variable-length decoder, no film grain technology' is supported by hardware dxva2.lo debug: - 'MPEG-4 Part 2 variable-length decoder, Simple Profile' is supported by hardware dxva2.lo debug: - 'MPEG-4 Part 2 variable-length decoder, Simple&Advanced Profile, no GMC' is supported by hardware dxva2.lo debug: - 'MPEG-4 Part 2 nVidia bitstream decoder' is supported by hardware dxva2.lo warning: - Unknown GUID = B194EB52-19a0-41f0-XXXX dxva2.lo debug: Trying to use 'H.264 variable-length decoder, no film grain technology' as input dxva2.lo debug: NV12 is supported for output dxva2.lo debug: Using 'H.264 variable-length decoder, no film grain technology' to decode to 'NV12' main debug: using hw decoder module "dxva2.lo" avcodec debug: Available decoder output format 61 (dxva2_vld) dxva2.lo debug: DxCreateVideoDecoder id 28 1280x720 dxva2.lo debug: IDirectXVideoAccelerationService_CreateSurface succeed with 17 surfaces (1280x720) dxva2.lo debug: we got 2 decoder configurations dxva2.lo debug: configuration[0] ConfigBitstreamRaw 1 dxva2.lo debug: configuration[1] ConfigBitstreamRaw 2 dxva2.lo debug: IDirectXVideoDecoderService_CreateVideoDecoder succeed avcodec info: Using DXVA2 (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460, vendor 4318(NVIDIA), device 3618, revision 161) for hardware decoding. main debug: looking for text renderer module matching "any": 2 candidates freetype debug: Using Arial as font from file C:\Windows\Fonts\arial.ttf freetype debug: using fontsize: 2 main debug: using text renderer module "freetype" main debug: looking for video filter2 module matching "any": 55 candidates swscale debug: 32x32 chroma: YUVA -> 16x16 chroma: RGBA with scaling using Bicubic (good quality) main debug: using video filter2 module "swscale" main debug: looking for video filter2 module matching "any": 55 candidates yuvp debug: YUVP to YUVA converter main debug: using video filter2 module "yuvp" main debug: Deinterlacing available main debug: deinterlace 0, mode blend, is_needed 0 main debug: Opening vout display wrapper main debug: looking for vout display module matching "directdraw": 10 candidates directdraw debug: creating Vout EventThread directdraw debug: DirectXCreateWindow main debug: looking for vout window hwnd module matching "qt4,any": 3 candidates qt4 debug: requesting video window... qt4 debug: Video was requested 0, 0 main debug: using vout window hwnd module "qt4" directdraw debug: created video sub-window directdraw debug: Vout EventThread running directdraw debug: disabling screen saver directdraw debug: directx-device: directdraw debug: screen dimensions (1920x52,3840x1132) directdraw debug: DirectDraw Capabilities: overlay=1 yuvoverlay=1 can_deinterlace_overlay=1 colorkey=1 stretch=1 bltfourcc=1 main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'resize' 1296x758 window directdraw debug: YUV overlay surface created successfully main debug: using vout display module "directdraw" main debug: original format sz 1280x720, of (0,0), vsz 1280x720, 4cc YV12, sar 1:1, msk r0x0 g0x0 b0x0 main debug: removing module "freetype" main debug: looking for text renderer module matching "any": 2 candidates freetype debug: Using Arial as font from file C:\Windows\Fonts\arial.ttf main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'resize' 1280x720 window freetype debug: using fontsize: 2 main debug: using text renderer module "freetype" main debug: End of video preroll

[aitte]

Just went back to an older VLC (0.8.6). This version has a button to refresh the list. After refreshing it contains //display1 and //display2 as it should. Why is there no such button in the current version?

[skanman]

I have exactly the same fault after updating to version 2.1.0.

Partially dragging the VLC window between the 2 displays, the part of the window remaining on the primary display continues to render the video image normally. The section of VLC window on the secondary display is frozen.

[aitte]

You're right. It's working again after I downgraded to 2.0.8. It's definitely a problem with 2.1.0. But it looks like no one here cares?

[Sm4sh3r]

Yep, i can confirm it, 2.0.8 helps....but in my opinion the vlc team has to do some rework...i hope they'll do it and fix the problem with a new version..

[hummerdave]

running 2.1.1 and can't access the displays
just have default under directx options for display
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os windows 8 x64
x64 version fo vlc

[-VLC-]

Same here - is there no solution, yet?

Also my player won't stay on the 2nd screen. After closing it always pops up on 1st monitor....

[mandhyl]

Anyone have opened an ticket on the VLC bug tracker https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ about this ?

[mandhyl]

Here the ticket: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/9910

[aitte]

You might add our initial problem with the black video when moving to the second display

[df30]

Same problem.
I already mentioned it in another thread when I thought it's a bug with overlay.
As I found out, it's not a problem with overlay itself. Vlc seems to use "DirectX (DirectDraw)" as standard video output module. At least this one is the only one which activates overlay mode, so I think it chooses this automatically. Also a lot of people have chosen this one because it's suggested if someone has problems with the output.
This module will work until version 2.0.8. From 2.1.0 on vlc won't use it because it wouldn't show a picture, so it chooses another one without overlay mode.
If you manually chose "DirectX (DirectDraw)" in the settings, it will not show a picture, just play the sound.

So it seems to be a bug in the "DirectX (DirectDraw)" module. It won't work on a second monitor anymore.
Please someone fix it, the new vlc is unusable for me if it can't use this, because I need overlay which the other modules can't use obviously.

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main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'double click' qt4 debug: Qt: Fullscreen state changed qt4 debug: Qt: Entering Fullscreen qt4 debug: Qt: Fullscreen state changed main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'resize' 1920x1080 fullscreen directdraw warning: DirectDrawUpdateOverlay cannot move/resize overlay directdraw warning: DirectDrawUpdateOverlay cannot move/resize overlay [repeats the line until fullscreen is left]

There is no line about it also not showing a picture in window sized mode though.

(Win XP SP3 x32)

Edit 2: An unrelated side note: Please make that the settings window remembers its size and position. It's very annoying if it hides under other windows everytime you want to change settings.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

You should use DirectDraw and disable overlay in preferences.

[df30]

I'm using it already. But that's the problem, "DirectX (DirectDraw)" doesn't work properly anymore (on 2nd screen).
Disabling overlay doesn't help and even if it would this setting would not be an option for me because I need overlay mode.