Quicktime Fullscreen

[martinnoweck]

Hi,

i have a quicktime File with a weird aspect ratio (8:3) and want to playback on a mac mini with two monitors - one half of the file on one monitor, the other half on the other.

when entering full screen mode in quicktime player pro the picture scales back to the main monitor - is there a way to tell qt player to do a fullscreen playback spreaded over both monitors?

best wishes,
martin

[Martin Weiss]

Don't know if this works, but have you tried alternative videoplayers, such as the excellent VLC? http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

[martinnoweck]

hi martin,
thanks for your reply. i tried VLC but had the same problem - when toggling to full screen the picture switched back to the main monitor. but maybe i missed some preferences there?
regards,
martin

[Carl Larsen]

To get reliable playback across multiple monitors, you may need to use something more sophisticated like ProVideoPlayer from Renewed Vision.

[Austin Glass]

PVP is a little extreme for the situation. That's some heavy software... not to mention you need a second Mac Mini, at least. The only thing I can think of doing is manually dragging the window to the size that you want. I know it's not truly full screen, but I think it's the best you can do without buying stuff.

[Raul Gonzo]

yeah- that's a good quick solution. I,ve done that and just set the background to two black images.

[Harry Lipnick]

You could drag it out, and then to get rid of the QT window frames, just do a ctrl-scroll zoom in to properly size it to fit both screens.
Peace,

-Harry

[Travis Moulton]

Look into the preferences of VLC, I think there is a way to do it.
Go to:
preferences
>video
>filters
image wall

I think it will play full screen on both screens, but I'm currently on my laptop and cannot try it.

[Martin Weiss]

Great tip, Travis.

You can use this module to split a video output in several small windows. This is especially useful if you want to display parts of the same video on several computers to make a big video wall.
Options



wall-cols <integer> : Specifies the number of colums in the video wall. default value: 3



wall-rows <integer> : Specifies the number of rows in the video wall. default value: 3



wall-active <integer list> : comma-separated list of active windows. default value: all



wall-element-aspect <string> : Aspect ratio of the individual displays building the wall. default value: 4:3



But when I enable that option, the video displays on only one screen. Do I have to somehow enable that filter first?

[martinnoweck]

the image wall is a great tip.

@martin: i enabled the feature first, quit VLC and restarted VLC player by dragging the clip on to the player.

you should have the number of windows you selected in the prefs and can drag them around. you have to select each window and then press fullscreen. haven't checked the sync capabilities yet ;-)

i ordered a matrox triplehead to do the job but maybe i will send it back...

anyway, any suggestions on how to (apple) script the VLC player?

kind regards,
martin

[martinnoweck]

just for the update: the VLC Videowall function is great and does exactly what i wanted it to do, but the mac mini was a bit slow for 50p so i solved the problem with a matrox triplehead.

thanks to everybody - best wishes,
martin