VLC Multiple (Dual) Monitor Fullscreen Bug
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!
Thanks so much for this information RTO! I have been using VLC for quite some time now. It’s the best video player I have found.
My main system at home has six 20″ monitors connected. Before I upgraded to the latest version of VLC, I was able to display the video in full screen mode on any monitor. After the upgrade, it worked windowed on any monitor, but in full screen only on one. This drove me crazy until I found your post. I thought I had changed some setting somewhere and was trying everything to get it working right. Once I reverted back to the 0.9.6 version, everything worked flawlessly.
Thanks again for the help! Hopefully VLC will correct this in the next release.
Brian
7 May 09 at 8:11 am