{"id":1362,"date":"2009-03-10T03:04:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T08:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2009-03-10T03:04:33","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T08:04:33","slug":"getting-vlc-to-display-full-screen-video-on-the-secondaryexternal-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/03\/10\/getting-vlc-to-display-full-screen-video-on-the-secondaryexternal-monitor","title":{"rendered":"Getting VLC to display full screen video on the secondary\/external monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I <a href=\"http:\/\/bytebot.posterous.com\/look-what-arrived-during-lunch\">acquired<\/a> a Dell <a href=\"http:\/\/accessories.us.dell.com\/sna\/products\/Monitors\/productdetail.aspx?c=us&#038;l=en&#038;cs=19&#038;sku=320-7345\">S2409W<\/a> 24&#8243; full HD LCD monitor. Its been a while since I&#8217;ve connected external displays to my laptop (on Linux, they are <i>fun<\/i> to work with), so today, I thought as one of the tests, I should see how VLC performed, on the 24&#8243; monitor.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/3343688782\/\" title=\"VLC dual screens by byte, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3664\/3343688782_d01fe207cd_m.jpg?resize=240%2C194\" width=\"240\" height=\"194\" alt=\"VLC dual screens\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nVideo -> Video Device<br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>But then, how does one get VLC to display on the secondary monitor at full screen? My repeated attempts were getting me to only see it on my main 13&#8243; display. A little prodding brought me to the <b>Video -> Video Device<\/b> menu option. There, you can choose either Screen 1 (your LCD panel on the laptop) or Screen 2 (the external monitor). Immediate win!<\/p>\n<p>Just wish this was automatic (ala, the Mac way), or a little more obvious. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I acquired a Dell S2409W 24&#8243; full HD LCD monitor. Its been a while since I&#8217;ve connected external displays to my laptop (on Linux, they are fun to work with), so today, I thought as one of the tests, I should see how VLC performed, on the 24&#8243; monitor. Video -> Video Device But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[789,791,26,212,790],"class_list":["post-1362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-dual-display","tag-full-screen","tag-software","tag-video","tag-vlc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-lY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1363,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions\/1363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}