Use Media Centre & have 2 screens? Look here!

mrk · 3 Dec 2010 at 21:55

Load up a channel and maximise the window to the 2nd screen.

Now try to move the cursor to the main screen.

Any luck?

I'm on Win7 x64, GTX460 gfx card with latest WHQL drivers.

Slam62 · 3 Dec 2010 at 21:57

yeah you can't in other news the earth is round.

mrk · 3 Dec 2010 at 21:59

Whoah there, calm your horses.

Edit*
Solved it, just alt+tab once in fullscreen mce and choose an app on screen 1, job done

Edit*
Issue 2, my 2nd screen is 16:10 (a proper PC res) but MCE defaults to 16:9 so stretches vertically instead of letterboxing :S

MeMeMeMe · 5 Dec 2010 at 21:32

There's a plugin someone created that gives you a button in the extras library section: click it and media center jumps to the monitor.
http://mikinho.com/wmc/control-panel/

Participant · 6 Dec 2010 at 10:14

Khaaan! said:
Load up a channel and maximise the window to the 2nd screen.

Now try to move the cursor to the main screen.

Any luck?

I'm on Win7 x64, GTX460 gfx card with latest WHQL drivers.

It's the same for everyone irrespective of drivers etc. I just hit the Windows key, it's the easiest way I've found.

Slam62 said:
yeah you can't in other news the earth is round.

This.

Vaguely on this subject...not being able to run Flash full screen on monitor # 2 while using an app on monitor # 1 is lame. E.g. run iPlayer full screen on one monitor then select a window on the other monitor....FFFFUUUUdge.

mrk · 6 Dec 2010 at 11:06

Well Flash 10.2 released last week solves that problem.

I was unaware of the MCE issue on 2nd screen until my Op, just shows how often I watch TV.