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Fullscreen on only one monitor?
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kind of a cheap work-around... but you could just max the size of the window for the movie. i have the same issue.
Well that's lame
Yeah, I know. I asked the same question a while ago and long-story-short... it came to that. One of those little things I wish Apple would fix.
That is odd because on my 2 monitor set up when I had a PC I could full screen itunes on the secondary monitor and still work on the main monitor. I wonder if that is a mac quirk. interesting.
figured it out. In Quicktime go into the View menu then click "Present Movie" and select just one monitor. worked for me.
You can do this using the VLC (Video Lan Client) Media Player... superior in a lot of ways to Quicktime Player and iTunes Video Player.
In VLC, you can run full screen video on one monitor and continue working on another, without interrupting the video.
In VLC, you can run full screen video on one monitor and continue working on another, without interrupting the video.
Present movie is a good feature for dual screen setups but too bad its pro only option. should be in the free version of QuickTime.
Yes, as cortexrock says, this is easily doable in VLC media player, in fact i'm doing it now! Just go to preferences->Video and turn of blacking out in fullscreen.
You can do it in QuickTime Player just fine. The preferences dialog has an option that will allow a movie to stay fullscreen while the app's in the background. You can even choose the screen that the movie is shown on. No need to use "Present Movie".
Which is yet another example of why MR needs auto thread closing. It could be set for 24 months and catch the last half dozen of these waking the dead zombie threads I've seen around here. What's more ironic is Mavericks finally addresses this issue, allowing you to have something full screen and do stuff on your second monitor. It only took Apple 6 years to get around to fixing this. And yes this thread may have aged 4 years from the most recent reply, but it dates from 6 years ago.