Change display scrren from within MediaPortal? (1 Viewer)

[johja]

Hi!

Is it possible to change on which screen MP displays while it is running?

I have a livingroom media pc where I use MP exclusively, MP launches automatically when Windows startsd and I use a remote control for everything.
I´ve tried the "screenselector" from the MP configuration but that is not what I need. I want to be able to change from my primary screen (Plasma TV) to a secondary screen (TFT Projector) with my remote.
Is there maybe a plugin for this or is there a menu hidden somewhere in MP that I haven´t found?

Regards/
Johan

 

[johja]

Merry Christmas to all of you!

I´m upping this post... Come on guys, some of you must´ve had my problem too? How did you solve it?

Regards/
Johan

 

[bigj]

I'm looking at this too - may be getting a projector soon - and want to switch between TV and projector without swapping cables and/or restarting MP.
My plan so far is to run dualhead clone mode - so I choose a resolution that is ok for both devices and clone that on both heads of the video card. Then I think I can just turn on the TV or projector and start watching! It doesn't demand anything of MP - resolution changing etc - so should just work. Well, that's the plan.
The downside is that I must use a common resolution of desktop on both devices - and because my TV is old analog PAL - that must be 576 liines. But that is ok for me for now since I only have SD sources currently. If you have a modern TV, then you could do the same, but use the native resolution of either your TV or projector - depending on which you watch the most (or which of the devices has the best internal scaler to cope with the non-native signal).
If you try this, let me know how it goes - 'cos as I say - it's just a plan for me right now...

 

[johja]

Yes, that would make is very easy. Unfortunately I can´t have the same resolution on the TV and the projector. My projector is native 1200*720 and my TV doesn´t support that res, it only supports 1280*768.
As it is now I have to go into config and change the display screen every time. I saw somewhere in the Forum that you could start MP with flags to set which monitir it starts with. That could be a temporary solution to have two icons on the desktop to start MP with, one for each screen.

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Johan