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Hi, I've been using VLC for a few months now on my desktop computer, running Windows 10. I use VLC to record other videos if I can't cleanly convert the footage myself. It is a dual monitor setup, but I've never had any trouble. I wanted VLC to only record the primary monitor's activities, and it seems to automatically do that. This is my work computer, and I never had to download VLC myself. The previous user of this computer had already downloaded it.

I just downloaded the portable VLC onto a USB drive so that my coworkers can utilize VLC for these same purposes, and I don't want them to have to download the entire VLC program onto their work computers because technically, we aren't supposed to do that. I have done a couple of test recordings with the portable VLC, and both times VLC has recorded BOTH monitors in the dual monitor setup.

The first test recording was done on a computer running Windows 7 Professional with dual monitors.The second test was on my own desktop computer, running Windows 10 with dual monitors. I can't figure out how to make VLC only record the primary monitor.

Thank you for any thoughts you guys might have. I'm a bit baffled. -Mari

Have a look here: https://superuser.com/questions/782959/ ... ond-screen

And please share the version of VLC you're using

Ok, I see that forum you linked suggest setting VLC to record the second monitor. I'll give that a try and report back. In the meantime, the version of VLC I've used on my desktop is 2.2.6 Umbrella. The portable VLC is 3.0.3 Vetinari.

Have a look here: https://superuser.com/questions/782959/ ... ond-screen

And please share the version of VLC you're using

Okay, this worked. Thank you so much! I think I had seen that post earlier, but hadn't realized it could be applied to my situation. Chalk it up to being a newb. This worked perfectly, and now my coworkers can record screens, too, without breaking any office rules. Thank you so much.

-Mari

Since this took me awhile to figure out and the link was not clear I thought I would share how to do this. Add this to capture device, show more options, edit options. Obviously change the width and height to the resolution of your computer.