Help Needed - Video Spanning 2 Screens

[calgemy]

Hi All.

I'm creating a display stand for some stores which we are opening and I'm looking to accomplish the following:

I want to create one video at the resolution of 3840*1080 and display it across two screens, each at 1920*1080.



Once set up, VLC needs to treat all videos like this without any human intervention as it will be set up to boot, launch VLC and open the video every day automatically. I can't allow our store staff to have access to the machine that is running this.

I've spent hours searching the net and trying out different ways to do this... all without any success.

Any help you can give would hugely appreciated!

I look forward to replies!

Thanks, Will

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

That can be done manually with the wall video filter and fullscreen mode, but that's about it.

[armorica]

it can be done, but the initial work needs to be done via the GUI. In needed this too and searched the internet for hours too, but finally decided to go through ALL the advanced options of VLC one by one and in the end found it:

Preferences (All) - Video - Filters - Video output filter module (scroll down to see these): select Wall, Save

Now the Wall module is activated on startup and may be controlled by --wall-cols, --wall-rows etc. starting cvlc from the command line. To set the number of rows,cols by default, in the GUI scroll to Image Wall and set the defaults (and Save).

Enjoy !!!

(running vlc 1.02 on Ubuntu 9.10 using 4 diskless (root via NFS) PC's forming a 2x2 Wall broadcasting streamed content)