Dual Display - Page 2

RPM_VR4 · 06-23-2005, 02:24 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by veetid

d_sellers1: I will be adding support for winamp vis's... 1.3 includes vis's for the first time, but they are just two basic one's I created... I will include winamp vis support in a later version...

david

Alright!!! MilkDrop f***ing rocks!

NiN^_^NiN · 06-23-2005, 02:30 AM

When i had dual Displays i just had 2 frontends run on the 2 seperate desktops

You just set the second frontend to use a remote control as input and the front as a touchscreen.

Simple i did this on my MII 6000e (600mhz board) and it ran fine with gps running up the front and movies in the back.

Altho i had 2 soundcards so the people in the back used headphones.

Just use 2 frontends it solves alot of problems

SOS · 06-23-2005, 02:35 AM

My second display is a composite screen only, which makes it a bit more blurry, I run this with a nVidia card on my Epia V10000, and just use the nVidia driver to send full-screen video to the 2nd display, and then when I quit video mode on CF i have video on the composite and CF on the primary VGA. So this works just fine.

The kind of dual-screen support I would like to see in CF is, 1 a fullscreen app that shows something like this:
MP3_Title: blablabla
MP3_Album: blabla2
and 2-3 more lines of info, maybe navigational instructions.

Then I could run Full screen Navigation on the main screen, but still see the music I´m listening to on the 2nd screen.

The other thing would be the option to start apps from the new app-menu on the secondary screen, like OBD software etc, so that I could have some software-gauges on the 2nd screen and Music/navigation on the primary.

veetid · 06-23-2005, 02:36 AM

I plan on integrated lots of multiple display features into centrafuse and things will be much smoother than using seperate frontends... I have it outputing two different sound signals using one sound card on my M10000 right now.. I enable 5.1 which turns the jacks in the rear to 3 outputs... I then use software to control what to send where... Send GPS alerts and music to the front and DVD/Video audio to the rear, which could be speakers or a headphone jack...

You can still retain your inputs by hooking up front audio connectors to the cd-in jack on the MB so the lose of line-in on the back isn't a big deal...

Basically in the future expect lots of really intuitive multiple display features...

david

SOS · 06-24-2005, 01:25 AM

veetid: I got my USB GPS yesterday, and got D3 running with native CF support, I can see why you wanted to rework it, it works, but some buttons are small etc :-)

The thing I noticed was that it´s actually not that hard to see the streetnames, and genereal Navigational info on my composit-screen as I was afraid of, so I would definately love to have the ability of having the Navigation running on a 2nds display and still have full CF control on the VGA (music manager etc).

The problem is off course when I want to do changes to the navigation, then you would have to move the navigation to the primary screen, and when I exit navi-mode return it to the 2nd screen for this to work. I assume most people here don´t have 2 touch screens :-)

Looking forward to see what kinda work you end up with on this dual-screen stuff :-) (and cf 1.3 :-) ).

Vchat20 · 06-24-2005, 11:43 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by veetid

Send GPS alerts and music to the front and DVD/Video audio to the rear, which could be speakers or a headphone jack

1337ness

this will definitely scrap my idea of salvaging the mobo out of this comp since its got integrated video and no agp (unless anyone can vouch for a decent pci card which will work here.).

but 1337ness anyways. keep up the awesome work as always david.

RPM_VR4 · 06-25-2005, 04:24 AM

PCI works fine. AOpen makes a low-profile PCI nVidia 5500 or something and it doesn't even need a fan.

You could also get a USB-to-TV-Out or even a "USB port-replicator with VGA" (yes, they make those).

Vchat20 · 07-02-2005, 09:14 PM

one more question regarding your dual display setup. would it also be able to control the auio output of extra embedded apps? for example: if i added an emulator into centrafuse and had it set to the rear screen, would CF be able to also send it to just the rear speakers like the dvd/video setup? or woud this require more work or a recode of the emulator?