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More => Old Versions => Media Center 12 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: NickM on October 08, 2006, 07:46:39 pm
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Further investigation into what’s happening with 2 monitors. I’m running a MacBook with an extended display, using DVI out to drive a digital external monitor. The MacBook graphics card is the Intel 945GM chipset.
Playing a DVD using WinDVD, I can watch the film either windowed or full screen on either the laptop or the external monitor. Playing a DVD using MC12.87, I can only see the image on the laptop monitor.
If I unplug the external monitor, set the display back to single screen, start a DVD in MC, then plug in the external monitor, then reconfigure the display settings for extended desktop, then I can drag the playing now window over to the external monitor and see the movie.
I had thought this was a driver issue, until everything worked out OK in WinDVD.
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I can confirm this running win XP sp2, using a laptop with ATI imbedded graphics, 128 gram+128 shared ram. I never tried the restart method you've found, I \'ve just given up on ever seeing a DVD play on my outboard monitor.
FWIW, the hp laptop comes with a player that displays on the 2nd monitor perfectly, and WMP will recover eventually.