grant centauri said : > 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. >
I think you can use xrandr/grandr (the gui) to switch off your laptop screen. I recommend flicking through the settings in grandr or "puredyne xfce menu -> System -> Multiple Screens " > 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 > > > --- > [email protected] > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne
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