directshow_player won't "stay" on 2nd monitor

[sillKotscha]

dear members,

this time I have no clue what I have [possibly] done, respectively what causes this really strange behaviour.

I can't get any ds_player to play on fullscreen_mode on my second monitor anymore. It is no problem to shuffle e.g. MPC on the second screen but at the moment I try to activate 'fullscreen_mode' the movie is shown at fullscreen resolution on my first screen (pc monitor). ZoomPlayer won't even be shuffled on the 2nd screen - just stays pigheaded on the first. If I turn on multimonitor_support using BSPlayer and choose TV as my first display than I have a green screen on TV.

now the "funny" part...

I can use WMP9 to view movies and can watch DVD's [using WinDVD] on my TV and both at fullscreen resolution.

The day before yesterday I did a complete fresh system installation and viewing movies on the 2nd screen with any of the mentioned players worked flawless. Since then I only installed 2 new things on my pc:

1. AlparyDenoise.ax / and deinterlace.ax (both can be found on this webpage: http://www.alparysoft.com/) - I've already unregistered these two ds_filters but with no success (aside from that, they couldn't have any influences but who knows)
2. I've installed 3dmark 2001se but I couldn't get it to work [I've installed DX9 and 3dmark 2001se was complaining about missing DX8.1 :D] and therefore I have uninstalled 3dmark 5min later...

I have no clue at all what could have screwed up my system! Fiddling around with my displays won't help. I've always used my 'standard configuration' - as you can see it here:

- http://www.sahnau.de/skotscha/config01.jpg
- http://www.sahnau.de/skotscha/config02.jpg
- http://www.sahnau.de/skotscha/config03.jpg

Where is the lack in my brain that I can't get it to work anymore :confused: :D

any help would be much appreciated!! The winner/ my rescuer will get a BIG HUG :p :rolleyes: - hey, it's st. valentine

cheers and thanks in advance

Sill

[jggimi]

This may or may not help...but I saw something in config03...

I have been using laptops with ATI chipsets for several years. My experience has been that while I can have 3 monitors (internal, external, and TV-out), directshow video will display only on the "primary" monitor.

Try setting the TV to "1" and the PC monitor to "2" and see if that solves the problem.

[sillKotscha]

hi jggimi,

thanks for your reply :)

and now... hang me HIGH!!

the "mystery" is solved for ZoomPlayer. For some reason I've enabled "make sure user interface remains on-screen" - dont ask me why and of course don't ask me why and of course don't ask me why ...

disabling this option solved the problem.

BSPlayer now works after I changed 'use overlay' from mode2 to mode1 - no solid green screen anymore.

But MPC is still tricky - as I said I can shuffle the player on the 2nd screen [TV] but as soon as I enable fullscreen the picture/ movie is displayed on my 1st monitor [PC]... strange, strange - gabest?!! :D

concerning your solution...

yes, that was the way before I got my fingers on 'DVD-Region free', because my ATI-AIW has macrovision protection and I couldn't get any DVD to play on my TV using the above mentioned configuration. The only player which was able to do that was Hero(soft) DVD-Player. But this player suc** and with 'DVD-Region free' I'm now able to use any DVD-Player.

Ok, now after you hung me high please apologize my stupid question... :stupid:

with kind regards Sill

[gabest]

Originally posted by sillKotscha
But MPC is still tricky - as I said I can shuffle the player on the 2nd screen [TV] but as soon as I enable fullscreen the picture/ movie is displayed on my 1st monitor [PC]... strange, strange - gabest?!! :D Try going into fs while holding the shift key.

[sillKotscha]

Originally posted by gabest
Try going into fs while holding the shift key.

The murder is out!! :D

thanks dude

regards Sill