Mediaportal on secondary screen (2 Viewers)

[MrMario64]

As far as I know MCE simply uses the TV out with mirroring/cloning.
So what you run on you main desktop you see on the 2nd monitor.
Works fine.
Or with mce you can use an extender, a device connecting to the mce device but running a similar app as mce locally.

As said before, nvidia themselves do not support an application like mediaportal to run on a 2nd monitor as you guys would want it.

It was just not meant for direct X applications yet.

 

[Anonymous]

Having said that we could make a lot of people look silly if we could provide support. I have 2 monitors / 1 tv rigged up to my dev machine
and I would like that functionality myself.

I have sometime free coming up to christmas. I may take a crack at it then. no promises, guarentees or anything like that of course.

 

[MrMario64]

Sounds like a plan OB2

 

[Anonymous]

Yep, you would be my personal hero if you could fix this

 

[Anonymous]

my setup

My "solution" is to use Coolbits 3d "enable vmr" function. That way I can run MP on the secondary screen with video etc. and at the same time use the primary screen watch video and play games. Not perfect as there is a slowdown.

This works for me but might not on a ATI card.

 

[Anonymous]

Why not use the same approach as in Meedio/myHTPC. Here you set your HTPC display properties to ‘Extend desktop to secondary monitor’ and then set Meedio/myHTPC to start at x = 1024 (assuming your primary monitor has a working resolution of 1024x?). This works perfectly and you can actually browse the internet on your primary monitor while watching a movie on your secondary monitor or TV at the same time.

/parbis

 

[usbrit]

I have a LCD on my Shuttle PC and a second Video card (DVI out) connected to my 42" Sony. I have expanded screen set in windows and when I run MP it appears on the LCD. When I start a movie, it appears full screen on the LCD AND on the TV.
Kinda what you want except, I can't use the PC for anything else.
I liked the MmyHTPC solution too, is it that hard to do?
usbrit

 

[Anonymous]

Why not use the same approach as in Meedio/myHTPC. Here you set your HTPC display properties to ‘Extend desktop to secondary monitor’ and then set Meedio/myHTPC to start at x = 1024 (assuming your primary monitor has a working resolution of 1024x?). This works perfectly and you can actually browse the internet on your primary monitor while watching a movie on your secondary monitor or TV at the same time.
/parbis

Unfortunately its not as simply as that. DirectX/Directshow is not compatible with the "extend desktop" feature. It doesn't work

You just can't compare Meedio/myHTPC features with ours because they don't use the same GUI rendering technologies as us. This sort of support if fairly cutting-edge from what I've heard. Even Microsoft's MCE uses desktop cloning to get round it. I'm sure this will change with Longhorn/Avalon.

 

[Anonymous]

A wild guess.....this hasn't been fixed in the new version?

 

[Frodo]

well if you have read the explanation given
then you know that this is not possible
Frodo