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i got a projector connected to my pc and would like to use vlc to open my files fullscreen on the projector (Monitor 2) , WHILE the controls are still on the Monitor one. Is there a way to do this?

Thanx
Tom

Yes, disable embedding video from interface and double click

i understand, is there another possibility that wouldn't include moving the disembedded window to the 2nd monitor, but I would just tell vlc to use monitor 2 in fullscreen mode?

Yes. Use either DirectX video output module (and specify the monitor from Preferences) or choose video window coordinates in such way that they hit to second monitor.

I think I'm asking the same question here, but I just want to clarify...

I'm connecting my tower to my HD projector to run features and shorts programs in a large venue. I want to have confidence that ONLY the actual feature's video stream is hitting the screen; no window frames, no file info, no mouse or cursor, no anything else. Just one of two options: black screen and silence, or the program. If there are various solutions, please tell me which one is the surest and which the easiest.

Secondly, what's the best way to embed cinema automation cues (curtain open, lights down, lights up, sound format change, etc.) that can be turned into pulses by some other component to signal the actual automation as to what to do at various points in the program? Someone in the ogg-theora forums suggested that it could theoretically be done on the file itself as invisible subtitle text commands that some concurrently running script could read and translate to pulses or whatever. This seems like a lot of work, and I'm not always (if ever) going to have permission to modify files of copyrighted material.

That moves us to working with the playlist. What playlist formats does VLC work with which might help here, and what are the best editors to use with it? I'm on Ubuntu 10.04. Thanks.

The curtain thing would require additional code, since VLC doesn't have feature for that.

With the number of cinemas now running alternate content this would be a handy interface
Is it possible to have the elapsed time sent to the serrial port as there are several RS232 interfaces that can be programmed to provide pulses when a number is reached

If you can send TCP/IP via them, it should be possible. Otherwise it would require new module.

So, I'm still hoping for a remedy to my problem two years later. The automation thing I will work out on my own (or not). But I would definitely like to figure out the display aspect of this. How do I make sure that display #1 (projector) shows only the video stream in question, whether it be a file on the hard drive, a Blu-ray in the tray or an HDCAM connected by HDSDI capture card? I may or may not be on a monitor at the same locaton, or remotely by VNC, and that monitor should display my activities, window frames, mouse pointer, etc. Any hints? Thanks.