dual monitor motion video possible?

[Sensai]

i have a radeon 9700 pro using catalyst 4.8, rage3d tweaker, and windows 2000 sp4.... how can i get .avi, mpg, dvds, etc to play on my dual monitor setup??? it only displays on primary output~

 

[tynopik]

radeon 9700 pro doesn't support dual hardware overlays, so i don't think it's possible

(of course i could be totally confusing what dual hardware overlay actually means)

 

[Elcs]

If you want an ATI graphics card to split the movie between 2 monitors, effectively turning 2 monitors into 1 widescreen monitor then you are out of luck. ATI cannoy 'span' a display accross 2 monitors.

Nvidia cards can. My 9800Pro couldnt play X2 The Threat at 2048x768 but my GeForce Ti4400 could. Although the Ti4400 wasnt the greatest, using the span feature enabled by far the best use of dual monitors Ive seen in gaming to date.

 

[imported_marky339]

any new answers to this problem? I have a 9600xt i want to play music videos using WMP10 on both of my monitors for a party tonite, but right now i can't get my 2nd monitor to mirror the first one without using UltraMon's mirroring feature. When i tried that feature, the video would only display on the primary monitor... I searched around the internet, and found some other media players that might be able to do full screen on 2 monitors, BSPlayer and Zoom Player... I haven't tried them yet, maybe later when i go home... just curious if anyone else knows any other fixes for this....

 

[rbV5]

ATI can span using CCC btw. Use VMR9 mode or uncheck "use overlays" in WMP 9/10 to play video on the secondary monitor.

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: rbV5
ATI can span using CCC btw. Use VMR9 mode or uncheck "use overlays" in WMP 9/10 to play video on the secondary monitor.

ATI does *not* offer the same sort of span mode that NVIDIA and Matrox do, unless they made some *major* changes in the newest drivers and didn't tell anybody. A true 'span' mode treats both your displays as a single widescreen monitor. To Windows, it looks like you're running a single display at a resolution like 2048x768 or 3200x1200 or whatever. AFAIK, ATI still does not do this.

Using VMR9 or a non-overlay video display *will* work. Not all players support these, though.

 

[rbV5]

ATI does *not* offer the same sort of span mode that NVIDIA and Matrox do, unless they made some *major* changes in the newest drivers and didn't tell anybody. A true 'span' mode treats both your displays as a single widescreen monitor.

In CCC displays manager, disable, then drag your secondary monitor over and pick "stretch horizontally...." (or vertically) Its been available since CCC was launched IIRC.

 

[rbV5]

You can check out B3D's shots of the CCC displays manager Here

 

[Matthias99]

Hmm... I gotta check that out! That's a pretty major feature upgrade if they really enabled true spanning...

 

[VirtualLarry]

Yeah, I've been looking forward to "span mode" on ATI D-H cards too, mostly for MAME. It can utilize an extra-wide display surface to emulate those old multi-screen arcade games, but until now that was basically limited to NV-only cards. MAME doesn't properly support multiple discrete display surfaces yet.

I wonder if the new "span-mode" feature is also one reason why the CCC drivers are only for the R9500 and up? I only have a lowly 9200 in there right now, so I still can't try it out with MAME. :|