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Howdy,

I was wondering if there is any way to increase the resolution for the ASCII art output plugin, because the default looks too crappy in my 3x3 monitor wall.

Ok, yes, I'm kidding. Though I do would love to know how to have better ASCII resolution.

My actual question: I am planing to build a video wall stuffing five twin head cards on a single box, and naturally I'm interested in VLC since the OpenGL plugin is the easiest way I've found to span video over secondary monitors (other than using Linux, which is not an option in this case). And good enough, I can maximize VLC over two screens and play video with no troubles on a twin ATI setup on Windows XP, but if I switch to fullscreen, it jumps to a single screen. Is there a way to get "real" full-multi-screen?

My guess is, not with VLC on Windows. But hopefully some of you have already went through this and can point some alternatives/workarounds. I've read about nVidia setups being able to present several monitors as a single screen to Windows, which is nice for "cinematic" stuff, movies and games, but not for other uses. Also, I could try to fake the full screen with a little batch, as in "vlc.exe" --width 2048 --height 1536 --video-x 0 %1", though I believe performance in real full screen is much better (is it?), I can't get the --video-x option to work (does it for Windows?), and title/taskbars would present additional troubles.

I'm also more than interested in any experiences you may have had with video walls, and any tips will be appreciated.

Use Wall filter in VLC.

Neato, thanks a bunch! --vout-filter wall --wall-cols 2 --wall-rows 2 -f did the trick.

So OpenGL isn't needed, since I get separate windows. And speaking of those, is there a way to organize them in their proper screens automatically? Manually moving them with tons of screen must not be fun. Though after brief testing seems they remember their place, so it must be done only occasionally when rearranging screens.

Also, sometimes the screens on the secondary screens appear black, and I have to restore the window (and then back to full screen) to get video. It happens rarely and randomly, with the exact command line and settings that worked just fine a second ago, and that will work again a second later. I suspect it has something to do with overlay, but can't be sure since I can't trigger it consistently. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

So OpenGL isn't needed, since I get separate windows. And speaking of those, is there a way to organize them in their proper screens automatically? Manually moving them with tons of screen must not be fun. Though after brief testing seems they remember their place, so it must be done only occasionally when rearranging screens.

No, this is not doable automatically.

Also, sometimes the screens on the secondary screens appear black, and I have to restore the window (and then back to full screen) to get video. It happens rarely and randomly, with the exact command line and settings that worked just fine a second ago, and that will work again a second later. I suspect it has something to do with overlay, but can't be sure since I can't trigger it consistently. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Deactivate Overlay to avoid that.

If you can not do this automatically what is the funcion of the "Active Windows" in the Video Wall settings? Logic would suggest that these settings would send the output to those defined display.