Programmer help

[mhar4]

This is a rather elaborate query that maybe some programmers might be able to help me with. With much help from this forum over the last few years, I have made great use of Quicktime movies in university teaching with my PowerBook running Bitplayer, an excellent playlist player. It allows me to send fullscreen video to a data projector while leaving the PB's screen to show lecture notes and have total control over the videos using the controller. The only downside is that if the projector screen is behind you in the classroom, you can't see what is actually playing without turning around. What I'd like is a playlist player that sends fullscreen video to an external display while allowing a small video window showing the same thing on the main laptop display. Now, I'm curious about scripting and programming and such, but what can I say, I have an Arts degree, but still I have been checking out guides to Applescript and XCode and so forth. My query is that before I get too deep into this, is what I am aiming for actually possible with Quicktime? Applescript seems to have a term to choose a display but not both at the same time, and not one fullscreen and the other not. So is it simply a feature which is not available or can it technically be done?

[mhar4]

No?

[SERBIAN]

ProVideoPlayer - Standard Definition (SD): $699 - ProVideoPlayer (SD) plays video up to a resolution of 800 x 600.

Modul8 - 299 Euros

[mhar4]

Thanks very much for the links.

They're interesting pieces of software but incredibly expensive for what they do. Also ProVideo Player for some reason resizes all the clips into 4x3 regardless of their original aspect ratio, which effectively makes it useless unless you reencode everything with letterboxing. They seem to have a lot of prrocessor overhead, too. Modul8 just gave me a headache.

[rumplestiltskin]

I posted your question over at the QT for Mac forum at support.apple.com. It's a very interesting issue and perhaps we'll get some kind of solution. Frankly, it really shouldn't be too difficult. We need two QT Player windows (one of which might be full-screen on the external display) playing in sync while being controlled from one user interface on the internal display.

Be patient; we might get some answers soon.

[mhar4]

Intriguing. Thanks for that.

Inspired by SERBIAN, I did a new search for software directed at presentations rather than Quicktime, and the nearest I found was something called Q-Display 1.0, which gives you a small preview window in one screen plus full-screen in another. But, the two windows don't play together and there is no controller for the full-screen window. And it's buggy.