[mythtv-users] VLC plays on wrong screen.

[Tortise]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Allen Edwards" <allen.p.edwards at gmail.com>
To: "Kevin Ross" <kevin at familyross.net>; <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 3:24 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] VLC plays on wrong screen.


On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Allen Edwards
<allen.p.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Allen Edwards
> <allen.p.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Okay since you are familiar with VLC and you know it works, use that. As
>>> for where to put the command, it's really up to you. Do you want to use it
>>> for all videos, or just .iso files? If you want it for all videos, go to
>>> Media Settings->Videos Settings->Player Settings, and make it your default
>>> video player. If you want it for only .iso's, go to Media Settings->Videos
>>> Settings->File Types, go to "iso" and put the player command there.
>>>
>>> Follow the advice of the wiki. Make it fullscreen. Disable the OSD. Map
>>> the key bindings so they match what MythTV uses. Add commands to the
>>> .lircrc file if you're using LIRC. These last two items should drastically
>>> improve the WAF.
>>>
>>> -- Kevin
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I have everything working except for one very important thing. VLC
>> runs full screen and the remote is working. My video starts like it
>> should. Problem is that the video starts on the control monitor and
>> not on the TV. This is very strange because when I set up a button on
>> the myth main menu to just start VLC, it would run on the TV. But
>> with the command entered in the .iso section, the focus jumps to the
>> control monitor (Screen0) away from the TV (Screen1), where Myth runs,
>> and the video plays on the control monitor.
>>
>> I googled around but can find nothing on this. It is probably
>> something simple like some command to tell VLC to play on the Screen1
>> but I can't find it.
>>
>> Screen0 is my LCD and Screen1 is either a CRT TV or a projector.
>>
>> Hopefully someone knows the answer to this.
>>
>> Allen
>>
>
> This may be a bug on myth 0.21 (which is what I am using).
>
> For the record, I have the following in /etc/mythtv/sessions-settings:
> MYTHFRONTEND_OPTS="-display :0.1"
>
> I see no reason why VLC should switch over to the other monitor.
>
> Allen
>

Well, I give up.
I got VLC to play in Screen1 with the following command:

DISPLAY=:0.1  vlc file://%s  vlc://quit

But there is no sound.  Setting spdif=1 in vlcrc does not help.

.

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Allen
Did you manage to sort this out, if so how?  I am trying a similar thing, except I am also looking to have vlc stream the file to a 
multicast address.  VLC does this OK on its own.