REDCINE dual screen support

[Andrew M.]

REDCINE dual screen support

Does anybody run REDCINE on two screens, one for menus, histogram etc and the second one for preview screen?

 

[Cüneyt Kaya]

asfaik redcine cant send the image signal to another monitor at the moment.
so, no two monitors with redcine

 

[Andrew M.]

I have noticed that REDCINE allows me to drug the displayed frame window out to the virtual second screen and out of the first screen. Second screen is even initialized in to the blank state when I start REDCINE so the REDCINE is there but while drugging the movie frame, it moves out of the first screen but do not appear on the second screen except the mouse pointer that goes there.

I think the current REDCINE design allows you to drug the frame display all over the virtual desktop spanning the two screens but the hardware accelerator somehow fails to switch over from one screen to the other.
While playing the HD content using media player of any kind and hardware accelerator, I see similar behaviour, but once I do drag the whole and entire HD player frame to the second screen, it flips to the second screen perfectly and keeps playing the HD content there.

I t doesn’t happens like this with REDCINE. Only mouse cursor goes there but the frame will not show up on the second screen even if the entire frame is drugged there

 

[Andrew M.]

Anybody from RED could comment on it?

 

[I Bloom]

I have noticed that REDCINE allows me to drug the displayed frame window out to the virtual second screen and out of the first screen. Second screen is even initialized in to the blank state when I start REDCINE so the REDCINE is there but while drugging the movie frame, it moves out of the first screen but do not appear on the second screen except the mouse pointer that goes there.

I think the current REDCINE design allows you to drug the frame display all over the virtual desktop spanning the two screens but the hardware accelerator somehow fails to switch over from one screen to the other.
While playing the HD content using media player of any kind and hardware accelerator, I see similar behaviour, but once I do drag the whole and entire HD player frame to the second screen, it flips to the second screen perfectly and keeps playing the HD content there.

I t doesn’t happens like this with REDCINE. Only mouse cursor goes there but the frame will not show up on the second screen even if the entire frame is drugged there

It seems Redcine is using it's own mini window manager, so they would have to add support for multiple monitors before you can drag the view frame onto the second screen. Bigger fish to fry right now I would imagine.

IBloom

 

[Andrew M.]

Yes looks like they take over the whole screen and manage it but I see clearly that they use global command to initialize the whole desktop not just a screen #1.
This causes the whole screen #1 and #2 goes blank when REDCINE starts.
Then if you move your mouse it moves across the two screens, it even allows you to drag the playing frame out of the screen #1 like any other two screen virtual desktop will let you do.
But, but then only mouse pointer appears on the second screen not the movie frame.
This also screws up the stop/start, forward/backward control that let you stop or start the review when you play the take at full REDCINE screen (you shut off all menus and frame is then full screen with no control buttons or menus on the screen) When you move the mouse pointer and you touch the left side of the screen, this action will let you stop/start and go backward.
When you touch right side of the screen with the pointer it should start/stop play forward but it is not doing it since the right side of the REDCINE screen is actually the right side of the screen #2
So some parts of the REDCINE is aware that the active REDCINE screen do ends on the far side of the screen #2 but the frame playing side of the REDCINE screws up here.
I think they use general API to interface to the graphic card but they do not look in to two screens specific parameters there.
So partially implemented support for two screens only because API they use do support it.
Is there REDCINE specific thread to post the problems or just general one for all