[ltp] Playing movies fullscreen on an external monitor

[Tino Keitel]

On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 15:12:10 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
> 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.

-xineramascreen <0-...>
       In  Xinerama  configurations  (i.e.  a single desktop that spans
       across multiple displays) this option tells MPlayer which screen
       to display the movie on.

Regards,
Tino