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Hi, i have a project coming up soon and i need to use 2 monitors on it (a main monitor for me to work on and a projector to present the stuff). Now my problem is that i have a GeForce 8600GTS and a Windows Vista Ultimate, and nVidia says that this combination has a technical problem using their full-screen feature on dual displays. I tried different type of players to do the job, and stopped here at VLC, cuz this was the closest to what i currently want to do. I managed to do the one-click start in full-screen thingy so far, but i dont know how to make VLC allways start up on the secondary display(using dual-view, its the extension to my main monitor), thus allways starting in full-screen, and quitting on one single CTRL+Q to ease my work, make sure the croud stays happy and doesnt see no mouse interference, no sign of windows, other than my dreamscene background. If anyone knows an exact method to do this, i'd really apreciate it... the project will be in december, and i gotta be prepared for it till november... a bit of help please

Thanks again, The Goldrocker

EDIT: my computer details:
VLC 0.8.6c
Windows Vista Ultimate 32Bit
Core2 Duo E6420 @ 3,00GHz
Asus GeForce 8600GTS
2x1GB 800MHz DDR2 GeIL RAM
2 monitors on dualview
the rest doesnt matter...

I'll have soon a laptop (in the next weeks) with Vista Ultimate and a nvidia. So, I might try and tell you. Just remember to tell it to me if you haven't found the solution.

still depending on what nvidia card u're gonna have, cuz this problem is only present on geforce 8 series and vista, but thanks anyway... any help is welcome

Quadro FX570

well i found a solution to it... its more like a workaround but i'll do for the time being... i've set my video window starting location to be greather than the first monitor's dimentions, thus forcing it to the second monitor, and enabled the start in fullscreen option.

Hi,

I'm using Vista Ultimate with the ATI X1600 card and I cannot get VLC v0.8.6c to launch fullscreen on my second monitor.

In the settings I have video output as DirectX 3D if I use anything else it disables Aero, and under the DirectX Video Output I have it set to \\.\DISPLAY2. Also have Full Screen video output option selected.

These settings worked when I was on XP Pro SP2.

Any ideas or workarounds? Right now I have to move VLC to my other monitor where as before I didn't have to.

Thanks!!

Hi, I'll tell you what i did exactly:
1. I downloaded and installed a Nightly Build from here: http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/win32/?C=M;O=D
2. Opened the VLC nightly and selected Preferences in the Options menu (CTRL+S for short)
3. On the bottom-left of the options, the Show Settings section i selected "All"
4. Selected Interface on the left, collapsed it and selected Main Interfaces and at the Interface Module slide-down i selected wxWidgets. Saved settings and restarted VLC
5. Opened the Preferences again, and turned Advanced Options to On, on the bottom-right.
6. Selected Video on the left, and scrolled allmost to the bottom, till i found the Video X coordinate setting in the Window Properties section.
7. I rewrote that to 1650. This may change at other users... my main monitor resolution is 1600x1200, i suggest you write in anything that is just a little higher than the first dimention.
7.2. You may change the Video Y coordinate too if it doesnt work this way...
8. Scrolled back to the top of the Video settings and unchecked Embedded Video and checked Fullscreen Video Output.
9. Saved settings, restarted VLC and from that moment onward videos started up automatically on the secondary screen in fullscreen.

Now as you may have seen through the settings i changed this is indeed a rough way to send information to the secondary output, but I'm obligated to use this since there isnt any other way with my system configuration. nVidia corporation wasnt nice enough to embed the fullscreen video setting into their GeForce 8 series, not to mention that the driver cannot include this feature due to vista incompatability either.

Hope this helps you in what you are doing...
Your sincerely, The Goldrocker

P.S.: Please confirm if this helped or not, thank you.

This is my solution using vlc 0.8.6f:

1. Go to Settings -> Preferences -> Video
2. Select Fullscreen video output (alternatively use f)
3. Go to -> Output moduels
4. Select DirectX video output
5. Go to -> DirectX
6. Click the Refresh list button
7. Select \\.\DISPLAY2 to direct the video output to second monitor

Yes I know this forces Aero off, but it is turned back on when VLC is closed.
Thanks to Goldrocker for putting me the track