Yes, thanks. This works fine for what I'm doing. I suppose if I'm going to be using this machine heavily for video I can try to get all the drivers and things configured for a better option. I was wondering though, is there a standard way to output to only one screen at a time? I don't necessarily need the laptop monitor on and it might work fine for me to just disable that screen and use the projector. If there was some way to just switch between the two that might be useful in the future. Not a big deal, just wondering.
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Claude Heiland-Allen < [email protected]> wrote: > grant centauri wrote: > >> hello, >> >> I'm playing some videos tonight and was planning on using my pure:dyne >> laptop to do so. However, though my projector screen is working fine (its >> a >> DIY LCD monitor on overhead projector) when I try to play a video in VLC >> or >> the GNOME movie player, it just stays black. The video plays on my laptop >> screen but not the other. When I use AVIdemux it will play, but that >> isn't >> really a very elegant option, and I can't go fullscreen it seems. >> >> This isn't really a pure:dyne question I suppose, more general Linux, but >> everyone here has been so helpful I thought I'd ask. I might figure it >> out >> myself, but I've got less than 8 hours til showtime and thought I'd pool >> my >> resources. >> > > The problem is not all drivers/hardware supports video overlay on two > screens, and afaik there's no standard way to configure which screen you > want. Not really a Linux-specific problem either, I've heard users of other > operating systems complaining of the same thing. The workaround I usually > use is: > > mplayer -vo x11 myvideofile.ogv > > This won't be hardware accelerated like the default xv video out, but it > should at least display something. You might find you need to add options > for software scaling too, if it displays too small or at the wrong aspect > ratio. For full screen 800x600 you might use: > > mplayer -vo x11 -fs -vf scale=w=800:h=600 myvideofile.ogv > > Hope this helps to some degree, maybe there are options in the other > players to adjust overlay or acceleration settings as well. > > > Claude > > --- > [email protected] > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne >
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