Fullscreen video on 2nd monitor (windows)

SDL Development
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Hi,

I want to display a (kind of) video with SDL:
-using Windows
-on the second monitor
-fullscreen
-hardware accelerated/ using a hardware layer

The user should be able to work with windows on the first screen, while the video is shown fullscreen on the second screen. Is it possible to do this with SDL? What version SDL is needed (1.2.14 or 1.3.x)? Are there any code example to redirect the graphics output to the second screen under windows?

Best regards,
Boris

2

You should be able to do this with the SDL 1.3 snapshot:
http://www.libsdl.org/tmp/SDL-1.3.zip

For example, you can do:
testsprite2.exe --display 1 --fullscreen
to show testsprite on the second display in a fullscreen mode.On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 6:46 AM, bop wrote:

Hi,

I want to display a (kind of) video with SDL:
-using Windows
-on the second monitor
-fullscreen
-hardware accelerated/ using a hardware layer

The user should be able to work with windows on the first screen, while the
video is shown fullscreen on the second screen. Is it possible to do this
with SDL? What version SDL is needed (1.2.14 or 1.3.x)? Are there any code
example to redirect the graphics output to the second screen under windows?

Best regards,
Boris

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