iTunes and a Secondary Display??

[thundercutter]

Hey Guys,

Just wondering if there is a way to have videos in iTunes play full screen on a secondary display. I know you can do it in Quicktime, VLC and eyeTV with terminal... but all my content is in iTunes..

Can anyone help?

I take it from this overwhelming responce that it is not possible to do??

 

[Eraserhead]

unless there is an option under iTunes Menu==>Preferences==>General==>Play Videos, when the external is connected.

Otherwise file a feature request for it with Apple, it's a good idea.

 

[bmb012]

Well... you can get the visualizer playing on the second display by just minimalizing the player and putting the tiny iTunes on the second display... this doesn't work for video?

Meh... I just play the videos from quicktime anyways, it's just a simple right-click, show in finder away...

 

[nsbio]

I can watch TV episodes in itunes on a TV, which is hooked up to my PB through S-video output. All I need to do in order to make it full screen on the TV rather than on the primary display is to drag the movie window onto the TV (in the screen spanning, not mirroring, mode) and then turn on the full screen option. The movie then goes full screen on TV. Very handy. The same might work with a secondary display on DVI output.

 

[mkrishnan]

I can watch TV episodes in itunes on a TV, which is hooked up to my PB through S-video output. All I need to do in order to make it full screen on the TV rather than on the primary display is to drag the movie window onto the TV (in the screen spanning, not mirroring, mode) and then turn on the full screen option. The movie then goes full screen on TV. Very handy. The same might work with a secondary display on DVI output.

Are you sure that the TV is not set to be the primary screen? VLC and other programs work this way, but my experience is that iTunes does not (on my iMac G5 with two spanned screens -- the TV and its own).

I have to set the TV as the primary display to have the fullscreen go over there. That's exactly what I do, though, and it works well enough for me.

 

[fivetoadsloth]

Are you sure that the TV is not set to be the primary screen? VLC and other programs work this way, but my experience is that iTunes does not (on my iMac G5 with two spanned screens -- the TV and its own).

I have to set the TV as the primary display to have the fullscreen go over there. That's exactly what I do, though, and it works well enough for me.

His method works for me, and i use expanded desktop with a widescren 20", if i drag the small player window onto my other mointor, and than hit full screen it opens up on that display.

 

[thundercutter]

Here is the setup I am after. It just makes sense to be able to do this..

Do work on Macbook Pro, watch films, tv from iTunes on my Display..

p.s I have made a feature request already to Apple

 

[Thanatoast]

See, whenever I drag the movie to the tv and hit fullscreen it blacks out the tv and puts the movie in fullscreen on the iMac C2D. I've gotten into the habit of opening my display preferences and dragging the menubar to the tv and then opening frontrow with my remote, which then opens on the tv.

 

[nsbio]

Are you sure that the TV is not set to be the primary screen?

Yeah. At least all desktop icons, menus and such remain on my PB display. For the record, I am running Panther - do not know if it is different in Tiger (why would it be?).

 

[mkrishnan]

See, whenever I drag the movie to the tv and hit fullscreen it blacks out the tv and puts the movie in fullscreen on the iMac C2D. I've gotten into the habit of opening my display preferences and dragging the menubar to the tv and then opening frontrow with my remote, which then opens on the tv.

This is also what happens to me. What I do is unplug the TV from the Mac when not in use... so then as soon as I plug it in, it becomes primary and then iTunes plays fullscreen on it. Weird... I wonder why it's different for some of us. Do any of you have QT Pro? (I don't.)

 

[thundercutter]

Just an update on my hope to find a way to do this. If you drag your iTunes window to a secondary display and then hit full screen on a video it will play on the secondary display!..

BUT

It makes your primary display black out...which sucks! Half way there...THERE HAS TO BE A WAY

 

[ziggyonice]

I'm reviving this topic in the hopes that someone has figured out a way.

I want to display the iTunes visualizer on my secondary display, without having my primary fade to black. Any ideas?