[ltp] Playing movies fullscreen on an external monitor

[Alex Deucher]

On 3/10/06, Eric Van Buggenhaut <eric@sindominio.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a T42 with ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]
>
> I'd like to use Xinerama/MergedFB with an external screen connected to
> the VGA port located 'RightOf' the internal lcd panel:
>
>         Option      "CRT2Position"          "rightOf"
>
> I'd like to play movies on the external screen in fullscreen mode.
> Problem is, if I start mplayer on the external screen and turn it
> FullScreen, the fullscreen pic moves to CRT1 and I'd like to keep it
> on CRT2. How can I do that ?
>
> Thanks in advance.

It sounds like mplayer isn't xinerama aware.  I'm not too familiar
with the mplayer options, but perhaps they have some xinerama ones.
xine worked properly last time I played with it.

Alex

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