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I updated my version of the excellent VLC media player today, to version 0.9.8a, which was punted my way from their download page. However regardless of the configuration and settings I chose (restarting the application inbetween) I cannot get it to output fullscreen video on my secondary monitor.

Buried under “Tools -> Preferences -> Show All -> Video -> Output modules” you can set which module to use for the output, and under *another* level of menu you can define settings for those modules. The options for DirectX are “Default, display, \\.\DISPLAY 1, \\.\DISPLAY 2″ and they all leave me with video being displayed on my primary monitor.

So after much cursing at what is, after all, an excellent application, I have taken heed of the ‘alpha’ status and downgraded to 0.9.6, which fixes the problem. A bug must have slipped in between the versions (no 0.9.7 version is listed on the download FTP), which hopefully will be fixed soon.

Until the bug is fixed in a future release, to fix this problem, download VLC 0.9.6 (Win32) to output the fullscreen video on the correct monitor. Other versions for MacOSX, etc, can be found here.

I hope this helps!

Twice this week I have seen a weird car driving around Wantage. A black Astra with a 5ft odd pole on top with what looks like 8 cameras pointing out in all directions. I commented at the time to family “wouldn’t it be cool if that was Google Street View, like they have in the States” and low and behold yesterday Google go an announce Street View for the UK!

Unfortunately on one occasion I was making lunch in the kitchen and the other time I was driving, so wasn’t able to snap a pic, but here is a pic from a quick image search…

So, look out for the mighty Wantage which is presumably just behind the top 25 UK cities to be added to Street View. In particular, look out for me in my kitchen window and sat behind it in my silver Astra at the traffic lights on Portway

The web is a wash with speculation over the coming iPhone 3.0 preview along with the new SDK scheduled for tomorrow, March 17th, at the Mighty Blue Apple’s HQ in Cupertino. It is worth noting that this is version 3.0 of the firmware, not 2.3, so we should be expecting something fairly major. Although the major works could be under the hood. Continuing from my iPhone 2.2 Wishlist, here are some of the additions I would hope have made the cut.

One of the most fundamental things (still) missing from the iPhone is the ability to copy and paste. This seems to be one of the most common rumours doing the rounds at the moment and, whilst not being particularly groundbreaking, would be greatly received by many. Read the rest of this entry »

Spreading like wildfire through Twitter and the social web yesterday were rumours, then confirmation, that YouTube and the Performing Rights Society (PRS), who collect money on behalf of record labels and artists whenever their music is played, had fallen out over licensing negotiations.

The dispute further highlights how traditional national bodies are finding it increasingly difficult to operate in the global village of the Internet, which has had a particularly profound impact on the way we ‘consume’ music in the last decade. Understandably each of these regional organisations don’t want to miss out on their slice of the pie, but bizarrely seem intent on destroying the very thing they are trying to embrace engulf at every turn. Read the rest of this entry »