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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 18 for Windows => Topic started by: thesmartmoney on December 08, 2012, 03:14:05 pm

Title: Cover View
Post by: thesmartmoney on December 08, 2012, 03:14:05 pm

First of all, great software, it trumps iTunes by a good margin.

I have two screens and when I change to my preferred view 'coverview' jriver auto stretches across both screens, is there any way to restrict coverview to one screen either within jriver or by using a 3rd party desktop management software?

Any help would be appreciated.

Steve

Title: Re: Cover View
Post by: thesmartmoney on December 11, 2012, 09:56:15 am

bump

Title: Re: Cover View
Post by: rossp on December 11, 2012, 10:25:31 am

I have 3 screens and when I go to cover view then it just goes full screen on one screen (middle).

Ross

Title: Re: Cover View
Post by: rjm on December 11, 2012, 10:37:04 am

I also have 3 screens and cover view only fills the one where MC standard view is.

Title: Re: Cover View
Post by: Matt on December 11, 2012, 10:51:46 am

Cover View should only fill the current monitor. 

We all use a couple monitors for development, and aren't seeing this.

Do you have some special desktop / multi-monitor software installed?

Title: Re: Cover View
Post by: thesmartmoney on December 12, 2012, 08:17:34 am

Hi Matt,

Thanks for your reply, I have AMD vision control panel (see attached screenshot), 2 screens attached to a matrox triplehead 2 go display hub attached to a amd radion hd5670 video card, my screen resolution is 3840x1200.

To clarify, when I switch to cover view i get the attached screen. (Ideally I want it exactly as rjm and rossp have described their setups, cover to one screen only, I've changed various settings but nothing seems to work)

Any help would be really appreciated.

regards
Steve

Title: Re: Cover View
Post by: thesmartmoney on December 12, 2012, 08:18:09 am

attachments added

Title: Re: Cover View
Post by: thesmartmoney on December 12, 2012, 08:21:00 am

coverview screenshot

Title: Re: Cover View
Post by: rossp on December 12, 2012, 08:23:13 am

I think your issue may well be that your resolution 3840x1200. Does this span two monitors. If so then MC will display exactly what you are seeing as it will use the whole of the 'display'.

Ross

Title: Re: Cover View
Post by: thesmartmoney on December 12, 2012, 09:23:22 am

It does Ross yes, even when i change the options to 1920x1200 within JR, it displays coverview centrally with huge black borders either side and with my monitor bezels breaking it up in the centre, rather than to either the left or right screen, frustrating!

Steve

Title: Re: Cover View
Post by: Matt on December 12, 2012, 09:25:56 am

To Windows, your displays are showing as one big monitor.  So this is what we'll fill.

You might be able to configure the displays as multiple monitors that are extended.  My computer looks more like this (where each monitor is a discrete entry):
http://www.multimediaforworship.com/windows-7-dual-monitors-settings.jpg

Title: Re: Cover View
Post by: rossp on December 12, 2012, 09:27:49 am

So this must be an issue with how the AMD vision s/w is presenting your 2 x monitors as a single 3840x1200 monitor to windows applications. It would be better if you could just let windows manage the two monitors separately and stretch the windows desktop across them. Then MC would pickup that you have two monitors and only put coverview on one of them.

Ross

EDIT - Bah Matt beat me to it.........

Title: Re: Cover View
Post by: csimon on December 12, 2012, 09:44:54 am

I think the issue is the Matrox device rather than the graphics card driver.  This is not a graphics card with 3 outputs but a device which splits the resolution of one screen into 3.  Quote from the specs: Creates a stretched desktop with a maximum resolution of 5760x1080 (3x 1920x1080)2,3 across three displays or 3840x1200 (2x1920x1200) 3 across two. Does your graphics card not have 2 monitor outputs itself?

Title: Re: Cover View
Post by: thesmartmoney on December 12, 2012, 09:52:18 am

Yes I assumed this was the source of the problem, it only has 1 output csimon and thanks for the suggestion matt/rosscp but it seems I dont have the option to split them and extend (see attached)