Real One player doesn't work on secondary display

"frank" wrote in message
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I'm using a PC as a home theater component. Therefore it drives two
displays
(an LCD panel and a projector).
I'm using an ATI 9600 Pro card. The projector is on the secondary display.
Most video applications work when dragged to the secondary display.
However Real player doesn't. It simply stays black.
Is there a way to make this work?
What is the technical reason that this doesn't work?



Sounds like the Real Player app doesn't support overlay on a secondary
display.

On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 21:37:40 GMT, "frank" wrote:

I'm using a PC as a home theater component. Therefore it drives two displays
(an LCD panel and a projector).
I'm using an ATI 9600 Pro card. The projector is on the secondary display.
Most video applications work when dragged to the secondary display.
However Real player doesn't. It simply stays black.
Is there a way to make this work?
What is the technical reason that this doesn't work?


Real One is spyware and should not be installed to begin with.


Pluvious

Well, I agree with that. But there is some content which comes only as a
real stream which I want to watch.
Is there any software which can be sued to watch real streams?

"Pluvious" wrote in message
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On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 21:37:40 GMT, "frank" wrote:

I'm using a PC as a home theater component. Therefore it drives two
displays
(an LCD panel and a projector).
I'm using an ATI 9600 Pro card. The projector is on the secondary
display.
Most video applications work when dragged to the secondary display.
However Real player doesn't. It simply stays black.
Is there a way to make this work?
What is the technical reason that this doesn't work?


Real One is spyware and should not be installed to begin with.


Pluvious

Sounds like an overlay issue. Can you set the secondary display as the
primary? Try it.... if it lets you it should fix the problem.
"frank" wrote in message
news:EikQa.53875$N7.6757@sccrnsc03...
I'm using a PC as a home theater component. Therefore it drives two
displays
(an LCD panel and a projector).
I'm using an ATI 9600 Pro card. The projector is on the secondary display.
Most video applications work when dragged to the secondary display.
However Real player doesn't. It simply stays black.
Is there a way to make this work?
What is the technical reason that this doesn't work?

"frank" wrote in message
news:XvGQa.61898$ye4.43725@sccrnsc01...
Well, I agree with that. But there is some content which comes only as a
real stream which I want to watch.
Is there any software which can be sued to watch real streams?

"Pluvious" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 21:37:40 GMT, "frank" wrote:

I'm using a PC as a home theater component. Therefore it drives two
displays
(an LCD panel and a projector).
I'm using an ATI 9600 Pro card. The projector is on the secondary
display.
Most video applications work when dragged to the secondary display.
However Real player doesn't. It simply stays black.
Is there a way to make this work?
What is the technical reason that this doesn't work?


Real One is spyware and should not be installed to begin with.


Pluvious


Winamp has plugins for Real audio streaming files, so it may also have
plugins for video files. You have to have Real Player on your system so the
plugin can use its codecs, but you can have it completely dormant. That's
what I do for audio real files; additionally, I use ZoneAlarm which would
tell me if Real Player ever tried to call home, and it never has.

patrickp