Windows Media Player Fullscreen on Secondary Display?

qaidskey · #1 February 9th, 2003, 01:56 AM

I now have my computer constantly hooked directly to my tv and monitor. I was wondering, since i've had no success thus far, is there a way i can have windows media player, on a my tv, full screen playing something? Im using a geforce 4 mx 420, and everytime i put it to full screen, the fullscreen part shows up on my monitor, rather than my tv (this is with the "extend desktop to this display" feature enabled and the media player window at the secondary display (the tv in this case).

thanx for any help, and if need be i can clarify if the above doesn't make sense to some.

Blair · #2 March 8th, 2003, 05:46 PM

Sorry, fullscreen is always displayed on the primary monitor. Maybe it'll be fixed in WMP9, I haven't downloaded it yet.

qaidskey · #3 March 8th, 2003, 07:16 PM

oh well. even if i assign the tv as primary it stil happens. but apparently windvd 4.0 has a built in feature for this.

Blair · #4 March 10th, 2003, 05:23 PM

Hmmm... I have an ATI video card, but if I set my TV to the primary display, (in my case a video projector via S-video) it displays full screen no problem. Whichever display I set to primary, diplays the full screen in both WMP, and Real.

Do you have the latest nVidia drivers?

Baser-X · #5 March 10th, 2003, 05:48 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Blair
Hmmm... I have an ATI video card, but if I set my TV to the primary display, (in my case a video projector via S-video) it displays full screen no problem. Whichever display I set to primary, diplays the full screen in both WMP, and Real.

Do you have the latest nVidia drivers?

same here, I've never had any prolems using S-Video out to and displaying full screen on my TV. How do you have the desktops set? I've got mine set as clones.

also w/ PowerDVD you can send the video to the TV and leave the controls on your monitor. Just a useful tip if you didn't know it

qaidskey · #6 March 10th, 2003, 07:57 PM

ah. i think there's a misunderstanding. i meant if i had the desktop split and then sent the window to the tv (it's possible with nView) and then tried fullscreen with it on tv, i wanted it that way so i could watch movies and work at the same time. with clone it works fine.