MP and TV? (1 Viewer)

[Jazzselect]

Hi, I have a problem:
I run a nvidia dual view setup with a TV on 2nd display. Nvidia's
overscan feature is really lame, causing my TV to show borders, but thats not an issue when using Win MCE in Fullscreen. MCE works superior in Fullscreen on 2nd devices, so my question is:

Why can't MP work in fullscreen on my TV? -when clicking 'fullscreen' in MP, it jumps to fullscreen on my first device (primary in dual view setup).

MP is far much better and hardware-stable than MCE, so getting fullscreen on my TV to work, I'll surley stay with MP.
(tried the 'second device hack' from the site, but it only works when having MP installed on default location)

Thanks!

 

[ronilse]

Hi,
MP needs to run on your primary display, switch & it should work.
This is how it's works now, if it will change I don't know :?

Regards
Roy

 

[FlipGer]

Hi,

it cannot change, because this is a Microsoft problem. Windows does not support DirectX on the secondary display. MP uses DX, so it has to be run on the primary monitor. Since you can define your TV as primary, it should work.

Flip.

 

[Jazzselect]

Thanks,

Hopefully in the future we will see this feature, for now it works ok to maximize MP on TV. But setting TV as primary device is not an option for us dual viewers who wish to use our HTPC for viewing media, and edit media simultainiously. The programs would open on primary display, in that case the TV.

But Im not complaining, MP works far much better than MCE and all the other media centers I've been trying out. And best of all It's FREE! So thanks!

-just another question, how come XP MCE works fine for fullscreen on 2nd devices, does it not use DX and overlay??

 

[Lolita]

Can you pls try this http://www.loli.cz/?p=84 ?

 

[Jazzselect]

Lolita, the link does not work, can you post another link?

 

[Lolita]

Hmm it will work when my FREEhosting will be up, but nvm it does not work as goot as when it run on primary ...

 

[EMKO]

maybe befor starting MP it could ask u wich monitor to display MP on?and when u close MP it brings u back to how it was. but then again u can just go to the video setteings and do it your self.

 

[Lolita]

BTW
I tryed ati, nvidia and matrox and all support fast switching primary and secondary (matrox is fastest )
Also nvidia and matrox can by set tu start normal aplication on secondary by default, but it don't work for all aplications, so it is useles ):
BTW2

Site is online again so i can repost it here, but you will not see picture of my desk

UPDATE: mp_start -nejaky starter, zatim sem na to moc nekoukal, ale nefunguje mi …

You need some program for managin displayes with global hotkey support (ie. ultramon, nView, hydravison, …).

Now it will be simple but … it was not easy FOR ME to find it out - because it start in fullscreen allways on primary display and when you right click on taskbar it have no menu (so you can’t select move to other monitor) etc.

[optional, but usefull ] Enable show taskbar in media portal configuration
Set Key combination for move aplication to other monitor (i use ctrl + alt + .)
Start media portal like normal
Go to fullscreen (if you don’t start it in fullscreen by default)
Press key combination you set

You can probably make macro for it - ie. in autoit.

BTW im not sure if it is full HW accelerated, but as my experiences with matrox G450 and software render it is

I don’t know if it is only issue on my mashine, but my mouse pointer is ‘jumping’ when moving it - it sucks ):