windows media player dual display

[sitlet]

i just hooked up my tv to my video card so now i have a dual display. what i want to do is have my main monitor open so i can go online and stuff, and i want the tv to do a full screen visualization from media player. so i dragged the media player from my main monitor to the tv, but when i hit the full screen button, the visualiation went full screen on both displays. is there a trick to getting it full screen on just the tv?

[rallynavvie]

Which video card are you using? There are different ways per the video driver to get this to work.

[sitlet]

its an ATI Radeon IGP 345M that came with my laptop. it has an svideo out which i connected to my tv. like i said, i have to problem using the tv as a clone of the laptop display, or as a second extended monitor. but when i drag media player to the tv and hit full screen, it will go full screen on both displays. i dont know if there is a setting in media player to stop this, or maybe a hack.

[rallynavvie]

I have that exact same adapter in my kitchen laptop (a Compaq). The problem lies with the overlay settings. The adapter doesn't have the power to drive video overlay and a second display, especially to the converted RCA video output.

Try VLC player instead and see if that works. There's something about how VLC plays video that sometimes works on finicky adapters like that. I'm not going to be home for at least a few months so I can't test it on mine.