OT: Software Player Output

OpChiasm wrote on 11/28/2005, 6:39 AM
Please forgive the ignorance of this question.

Next week I may be playing a presentation through a projector connected to my laptop, a Dell Latitude 810. The presentation is 8 wmv files rendered by Vegas, which I set up as a playlist in Windows Media Player. Each section starts with 2 seconds of black, so the playlist works fine. (I say "may" because I also made the presentation into a DVD and I'm going to test which looks better in the theater.)

I also have WinDVD, which I've never really used. It has a bunch of options for the video playback. My question is ... if I were to make the playlist in WinDVD and adjust video options, do the adjustments influence what's sent from the laptop to the projector, or are those adjustments reflected only on the laptop screen?

Thanks in advance.

Comments

JJKizak wrote on 11/28/2005, 7:46 AM
From previous threads on this forum Nero Player is a bit better than Media Player.

JJK
filmy wrote on 11/28/2005, 8:09 AM
>>>do the adjustments influence what's sent from the laptop to the projector, or are those adjustments reflected only on the laptop screen?<<<

Depends on how you are sending the info. Most coomon would be via a dual monitor set up in which case you should be able to adjust the secondary monitor anyway you want to. Also most have seperate adjuments for anything that is overlayed, which would be the video. You might want to look at Media Player Classic as your media player. It is free, uses whatver codecs you might want to assign to a media type (default ones are fine as well) , accepts play lists, has other adjustments - aspect ratio and the like, and works fine in a dual monitor envioroment.

Having said that - can you just play out the media from the Vegas timeline to your second monitor (projector)?