[ltp] Playing movies fullscreen on an external monitor

Joachim Breitner linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 11 Mar 2006 09:41:32 +0100


Hi,

Am Freitag, den 10.03.2006, 13:41 +0100 schrieb Eric Van Buggenhaut:
> 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 ?

Use the -xineramascreeen option of mplayer (see the manpage). mplayer
does not automatically detect on what screen you dragged it on.

Greetings,
Joachim
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