[FFmpeg-user] ffplay on second monitor

[mark at leman.net]

Quoting Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com>:

> On 1/16/19, Mark Leman <mark at leman.net> wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>> I am trying to use ffplay to crop and scale the 720p 16:9 output from
>> vmix to provide a second 800x600 4:3 output on a video wall.
>>
>> The command
>> ffplay -f dshow -i video="vMix Video" -an -x 800 -y 600 -noborder -vf
>> "crop=960:720:160:0, scale=800:600"
>> does exactly what I want, but I can't move the 'noborder' window to my
>> second monitor which is the video wall.
>>
>> Is there a way to specify which screen the window appears on? (OS is
>> Windows 10)
>>
>> I have tried without the 'noboarder' option, which allows me to drag the
>> window over to the second display an make it full screen. But as soon as
>> I click on any other program on the first monitor ffplay drops from full
>> screen.
>>
>> I have also tried solving the problem with VLC but it has significant
>> buffering lag.


> Try also with mpv.

Thanks for that idea, I had a quick look at mpv with the following:

mpv.exe "test_vid_1280x720.mp4" --osc=no --screen=2 --no-border  
--geometry=800x600 --panscan=1

However I don't know how to get mpv to take the directshow video input I need?

Regards,
Mark Leman