Showing posts with label windows media player. Show all posts
Showing posts with label windows media player. Show all posts

Friday, January 25, 2008

Disable full screen video on Dual monitor setup

I was recently trying to debug an application that hosts a windows media player control and I wanted the application to run full screen on my primary display with my Visual Studio IDE on the secondary display. Annoyingly, although the application appeared on my primary display as expected, the secondary display had a full screen video output. There appears to be nothing in the media player API to prevent this. It turns out that you need to change your driver display settings to prevent this. These settings are driver specific, for mine I needed to do:
  1. Bring up display properties from control panel
  2. Click Settings
  3. Click Advanced
  4. Click Quadro NVS 120 M (Nvidia specific)
  5. Click Start NVidia control panel
  6. Click Video and Television
  7. Click Modify full screen options
  8. Set "When watching video content" to Only show it in my viewing application