[FFmpeg-user] ffplay on second monitor

[mark at leman.net]

Quoting Carl Zwanzig <cpz at tuunq.com>:

> On 1/15/2019 4:49 PM, Mark Leman wrote:
>> Is there a way to specify which screen the window appears on? (OS  
>> is Windows 10)
>
> I don't offhand know if the 'dshow' device supports positioning but  
> it ought to... a trip through code may be in order*; I do know the  
> gdigrab device supports "-offset_x 1920 -offset_y 0 -video_size  
> 800x600" which gets the second monitor on my setup.
>
> *If I'm inspired tomorrow, I'll take a look; there's a 6 hour flight  
> in the near future :).

Thanks for the help.

I am not an expert at this, but I though the dshow device was the  
input device? I am taking the input from vmix over this and that is  
working well, I get the correct video input and scale and crop it  
fine....

The problem is I want to specify where the *output* goes to, so that  
the output is displayed on my second monitor which will be replaced by  
the video wall (fed by HDMI). Once I use the -noborder option you can  
drag the window any more, and actually dragging it is not ideal, a  
command line option would be preferable :-)

I followed a suggestion from another user and looked at mpv player,  
this has an option to '--screen=n' to tell it which monitor to show  
the output on. Unfortunately I don't think mpv player can take the  
dshow input, so I am back to ffplay as the closest option.

Regards,
Mark Leman