Full Screen Panning over Dual Monitors

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Full Screen Panning over Dual Monitors

I have a pretty quick and upfront question.

I would like to plug in two projectors to my Powermac, and then full screen a movie and have it span over both monitors. My movie is basicly double HD (2560x720) (two 1280x720 movies combined side by side). The point of this is to do Stereoscopic movies, and then we project both projectors one on top of the other. However, whenever we full screen the movie, it just full screens over one of the projectors.

We've Tried "Full Screen" and "Presentation" mode? Is there something we're just missing, or is this not possible.

Hopefully someone can help 🙂 Thanks in advance.

Powermac Dual 2.5ghz G5, Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Posted on Mar 14, 2006 11:49 PM

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Answer 1

Mar 15, 2006 10:34 AM in response to Adam Hosp

I'm trying to test the two screen possibilities, but if it turns out that QuickTime Player can't do it, it would be easy to do using Director. Let me know and I can make something for you that would do the job.

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Answer 2

Mar 15, 2006 10:59 AM in response to Adam Hosp

You can play 2 movies full screen on 2 monitors with Quicktime. There a quicktime player call nicePlayer that can all so play the 2 movies on seperate screens. The problem with be if you computers and video card can do the job of playing the movie smoothly. I just did a test and this can be done. But the preforance was poorly.

NicePlayer url:

http://niceplayer.indyjt.com/

free download

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Answer 3

Mar 15, 2006 9:24 PM in response to David M Brewer

The main problem with playing two videos to two monitors (not counting the fact that many PCs aren't that great at playing that large a video anyway), is that the drive is seeking to two files in different places on the disk. That would be a lot worse too in the case of optical discs.

With one QuickTime file played on two screens (as can be done with Director), the video is coming from one file, with all the data nicely interleaved on the drive to save having to do any seeks at all.

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Answer 4

Mar 26, 2006 12:47 PM in response to Adam Hosp

"MaxiFrame is a new category of QuickTime playback utility that introduces SFD, a technology that gives users new options for multi-monitor Fullscreen Mode and custom playback of QuickTime media."

Maxiframe
http://www.einsteinslegacy.com/

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