Fullscreen in secondary display

[Tanman]

I have a dual monitor setup, and would like to request the ability to have full screen capability on the 2nd display.

[reboot]

This is a function of your video card, and nothing to do with gbpvr.

[blader_se]

Have you tried to move GB-PVR to the 2nd display (e.g. extended windows desktop) and hit Alt-RETURN ?

[Tanman]

I disagree. Other media players including DivX player, PowerDVD, Windows Media Player, BSplayer allow you to full screen (alt-enter) the application in whatever display you drag the window to. This is a programmable feature - one that has not been implemented.

The only option that currently exists in GBPVR is the option to full screen the application to your PRIMARY display.

[sub]

You can drag it in 'window mode' to the second monitor, then press alt-enter to fullscreen it.

[Tanman]

oh thanks!

[Jaz]

I've just setup a dual display in my living room, with the monitor as the default display and the TV as the secondary.

Windows implementation of Dual Display seems to be a bit hit and miss - sometime It'll remember in which screen you last had a window opened, but most of the time it forgets.

At the moment if you launch GB-PVR at startup it will open in the Primary display (the top left point at 0,0).
Perhaps Sub could experiment with allowing the user to specify at which co-ordinate to open the fullscreen display. In my case I'd want the top left to be positioned at 1025,0

For the time being I have found a solution which is a bit more straightforward than the "opening in windowed mode" method. If you add a second shortcut to the secondary display desktop and double-click it Windows will start GB-PVR in fullscreen in the secondary display.

Hope this helps.

[elite]

Most (if not all) video cards allow you to do this. If you're using nvidia check out the nview options...

[acidfiend2003]

One thing that I found is that GB-PVR refuses to go to fullscreen with alt-enter if you are currently watching a video stream. If you're in the GUI it works fine.

HTH
Dave

[blader_se]

One thing that I found is that GB-PVR refuses to go to fullscreen with alt-enter if you are currently watching a video stream. If you're in the GUI it works fine.

Have you installed the latest version? Sub mentioned fixing this.