Video on 2 monitors

Thanks for your reply Jeff,

You're right, other applications are working well like this.
I am using WMP but tried with J.River Media Center, Divx player, etc... and
i've got the same prob.
I will try anyway to disable the PNY manager.

Thanks.

Nic.



Jeff Richards wrote:
 > If you don't have this problem with other applications such as your
 > word processor or your web browser, then it's likely a feature of the
 > video player. For instance, it may have decided that video should not
 > be split across two screens (like some games do)
 >
 > I use Windows Media Player and it plays videos across two monitors
 > just fine (although they look a little odd with a gap down the
 > middle.).
 >
 > If you are using a display manager provided by PNY you could disable
 > it and use the W98 built-in multi-monitor function.
  >> Hi There,
  >>
  >> I've got a PNY graphic card with 2 monitors and i am on "Large view"
  >> (2048*768)
  >> When I play a video (with WMP for example) and put it in full
  >> screen, I've got the half of the video on on screen and on the other
  >> one : blank ... Nothing...
  >>
  >> It works already, but don't know how.
  >>
  >> Is there a way to make the video to work on both screens ?
  >>
  >> Thanks for your answers.
  >> Nic.


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Nic,

In my experience video will only play across both (or more) screens if
you are using a software renderer. If you are using hardware
acceleration (even just overlays) then they can not work across multiple
screens.

There used to be a player that would switch to software rendering
automaticall but I can't remember what it was called I'm afraid, but I
can tell you it wasn't Zoom Player (my prefered option) or VLC.

This may be different for professsional cards which have better support
or in situations where Windows is being tricked by the video driver into
only seeing one monitor (e.g. nVidia's nView software) but I have
limited experience with such setups.

Peace,
Neil

News wrote:
 > Thanks for your reply Jeff,
 >
 > You're right, other applications are working well like this.
 > I am using WMP but tried with J.River Media Center, Divx player, etc... and
 > i've got the same prob.
 > I will try anyway to disable the PNY manager.
 >
 > Thanks.
 >
 > Nic.
 >
 >
 >
 > Jeff Richards wrote:
 >
  >>If you don't have this problem with other applications such as your
  >>word processor or your web browser, then it's likely a feature of the
  >>video player. For instance, it may have decided that video should not
  >>be split across two screens (like some games do)
  >>
  >>I use Windows Media Player and it plays videos across two monitors
  >>just fine (although they look a little odd with a gap down the
  >>middle.).
  >>
  >>If you are using a display manager provided by PNY you could disable
  >>it and use the W98 built-in multi-monitor function.
  >>
   >>>Hi There,
   >>>
   >>>I've got a PNY graphic card with 2 monitors and i am on "Large view"
   >>>(2048*768)
   >>>When I play a video (with WMP for example) and put it in full
   >>>screen, I've got the half of the video on on screen and on the other
   >>>one : blank ... Nothing...
   >>>
   >>>It works already, but don't know how.
   >>>
   >>>Is there a way to make the video to work on both screens ?
   >>>
   >>>Thanks for your answers.
   >>>Nic.
 >
 >
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