teknikool

16th November 2004 03:47 UTC

View Fullscreen AVS on separate Monitor
In the AVS window under 'Settings' should be a Geiss/MilkDrop/Smoke type of selection for Fullscreen. You should be able to select different display adapters and change the screen resolution (in order to view AVS on a separate video card). It would be great for parties if you had dual-monitors or a monitor and projector layout or or even S-Video out. (i.e. It would be sweet to have two (or more) monitors and have one show ONLY Winamp and edit the playlists, etcetera on one monitor and have AVS playing fullscreen all the time on a separate screen.)

I am currently limited to MilkDrop to perform this and I would like to broaden the horizon and be able to use the versitility of AVS.

Mr_Nudge

16th November 2004 04:27 UTC

I'm sure there is a way to do this already. Make sure you <b>search</b> first. But AVS is dead - it's no lomger being updated and probably never will, unless someone at nullsoft (which is also said to be dead) releases the source code. So if there's not already a way to do it, there most likely never will be. Sorry.

PAK-9

16th November 2004 15:45 UTC

I agree with teknikool, this would be a very useful feature. The fact that at least once a fortnight someone makes a new thread about how to use AVS with >1 monitor highlights how poor AVS is at dealing with it.

And nudge, there's no need to shoot down everyone who makes a request by saying AVS is dead (woe is us etc...) after all this is the whole point of this sub-forum.

dsl52

17th November 2004 01:38 UTC

you can run avs on overlay mode on desktop; Make the "application bar" automatic hide(i don't know the name in eglish because i run windows in italian and it's the bar in the bottom of the screen where you find start and the programs you have opened); then put all the icons in the second screen and winamp end avs editor too and then swich the screens, make the normal sceen like second screen and the second screen like normal screen (see the propieties of your video card). Now you have avs full screen in overlay mode in your projector or tv and in the first screen you have avs editor.

stanna

17th November 2004 02:43 UTC

its all fun and good to do it that way, but almost every program requires to have some sort of interaction on the primary display, its a cheap work around. it does work in many ways but stuffs up alot of other things.. but it does work and yeh whatever. its a pity tho.. i would of really liked it to work properly. :)

releasing the source code would be a great idea! i would love to see how many variations could be made from it. all sorts of different branches.

PAK-9

18th November 2004 17:33 UTC

I suggest you search the forums, as I implied this topic has come up at least a gazillion times.

mookyrooky

1st December 2004 16:03 UTC

Fullscreen AVS
I am surprised at the amount of technical questions about running this in fullscreen mode. I had a lot of trouble getting it to work at first but i think I have simplified the process. Here's my setup, which works quite well. I use this as a backdrop for my band.

I attach a projector via the monitor cable to my laptop. (You could use a separate monitor of course instead of the projector).

I setup my laptop to Extend My Desktop onto the second monitor. Set the resolution according to what your video card can support.

Configure Winamp to suppress the text in fullscreen and window modes.

Start Winamp and drag the player over to the second monitor and maximize it.

This sounds basic but it seems to be generating a lot of back and forth dialogue.

If the Winamp window is EMPTY on the second monitor, but OK on the primary, it may be the frequency or display settings between your adapter and the monitor\projector. Make sure they match.

PAK-9

2nd December 2004 17:33 UTC

Re: Fullscreen AVS

Originally posted by mookyrooky
Start Winamp and drag the player over to the second monitor and maximize it.

DeadPoet101

23rd December 2004 02:19 UTC

There are plugi-ins that allow multi-monitor selection... (See the CDG Plug-in) Why not in AVS? Heck, adding it to the Base Winamp would be nice. Select another monitor for your movies... For your play lists... For your AVS!!!

Mr_Nudge

23rd December 2004 06:52 UTC

That should work, thats not updating avs, just winamp, which happens every 6 months or so, and since 5.07 was recently released, i can assume we'll be waiting a while

hboy

23rd December 2004 08:21 UTC

actually 5.08 is also out ;)

teknikool

1st September 2006 14:40 UTC

Multi monitor AVS
It's mid-2006 and we have Winamp 5.24 and we still don't have any solution. More and more people are getting 2 or more monitors. 4 monitors are getting to be the norm with gamers and their SLI video cards and such. We need a good solution to help solve this. We need to be able to define a monitor to fullscreen visualization instead of just primary. In some cases the fullscreen AVS spills over into the secondary monitor. Winamp is not keeping up with the technology? I can't believe that I even uttered that. I have a hard time believing that. What happened?

Is somebody going to fix this?

Warrior of the Light

1st September 2006 16:51 UTC

Nullsoft doesn't work on AVS anymore as you have read above.
Instead, they've made AVS open source software, so you're welcome to go ahead and make it so if you like.

As for now, you are able to use AVS fullscreen on four moninitors.
In short:

Primary: overlay mode (drag items to secondary)
Secondary: drag over the AVS window with a resolution that's a bit bigger than the secondary monitor's resolution.
third, fourth: clone

kostyap

13th September 2006 04:00 UTC

This one does
This visualizer from EXSOTRON can run fullscreen on any monitor at any resolution. Some screenshots are here
http://www.exsotron.com/vp/

Warrior of the Light

13th September 2006 10:08 UTC

So can AVS if you took the effort of reading the post above yours.

You know, most of us will see this as spam which is a valid reason here for banning. Also, it's a lame kind of spam since there isn't even a download section on your site.

My opinion as based on the screenshots:
The colors miss intensity (a lot)
Most colorschemes are just.. wrong.

I could of course give a more detailed review if I were able to download it.

kostyap

14th September 2006 11:01 UTC

Originally posted by Warrior of the Light
So can AVS if you took the effort of reading the post above yours.

You know, most of us will see this as spam which is a valid reason here for banning. Also, it's a lame kind of spam since there isn't even a download section on your site.

My opinion as based on the screenshots:
The colors miss intensity (a lot)
Most colorschemes are just.. wrong.

I could of course give a more detailed review if I were able to download it.

Loopey

6th November 2006 08:25 UTC

What you guys are looking for here can actually be done very easily with a Nvidia-based card.

Get into AVS options, under Overlay mode, select "overlay mode", and then "set desktop to color". Then hit the default-color button (if you need to), now your background is your AVS. In Nvidia, select your second monitor (or TV) to be an extension of your desktop. Looks really cool, great for parties ect. Used this solution on my last 3 Nvidia cards, the most recent being a GeForce 5700.

I'm not sure if this solution is posted somewhere else or not. I'm just searching for a way to make this work with my new ATI card, and thought I'd ad my solution for my old Nvidia card.

jheriko

6th November 2006 10:12 UTC

You need to make sure the overlay is set to output to the correct monitor too.