Lion + QuicktimeX + dual screens + fullscreen?

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This is driving me to drink more than I already do. One laptop. One external screen to the right of the laptop. Desktop extending to the right onto the second screen.

Open a file in QuicktimeX, drag it to the second screen, hit play, hit full screen.

Now, what used to happen, is it went full screen. I have something running on the external screen, while poking around on my main screen.

Instead, when I hit full screen, it goes full screen on the laptop screen, and whatever was on the external screen, kinda slides in behind QuicktimeX, leaving me with a blank external screen.

I vaguely remember I had to write a default setting but I tried two so far which QuicktimeX seems to ignore:


defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGFullScreenExitOnAppSwitch 0
defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX FullscreenPreferenceCaptureAllDisplays 0

It seems to ignore both. Now, I copied good old Quicktime Pro from my old drive, and that seems to behave right. I looked at all the resources I could find on settings for QuicktimeX, but nothing reads like it might affect this (and it seems to ignore everything anyway).

Has anyone managed to get it to behave?

Thanks
 
Interesting - fit to screen still works though and if you really want the black bars you can always use a black desktop. :)
 
Yeah, I have xbmc too, which I like, but it would be nice to get Quicktime back to its normal behaviour.
 
It there that big a difference for you between full screen and filling the screen?
 
Not particularly, but it would be nice if it works right.

Another issue I have is codecs. I have installed (and re-installed, just to be sure) Perian, but QuicktimeX won't play some mkv files that it played before. I also notice when I open an mkv file, it sits with "Loading Movie..." with the spinny wheel for a long time before it either opens it or tells me it can't.
 
SOB - I just found out that they've axed Front Row from Lion. :mad: :eek:
 
Yip, and copying the old one over doesn't work. It's only 370KB odd, so I assume that's just a starter app and the real application is hidden somewhere in the OS.

I'm liking xbmc though - Frontrow could never play all the formats I needed it to.
 
koffiejunkie said:
Yip, and copying the old one over doesn't work. It's only 370KB odd, so I assume that's just a starter app and the real application is hidden somewhere in the OS.

I'm liking xbmc though - Frontrow could never play all the formats I needed it to.
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FrontRow plays everything that quicktime can with Perian, which is everything I need to play anyway.
 
koffiejunkie said:
Doesn't help me much at the moment :o
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I just tried to load a mkv in QT player and was prompted to click on a button to switch to QT7 where it worked just fine.

Now the odd thing is quickview works.
 
bwana said:
I just tried to load a mkv in QT player and was prompted to click on a button to switch to QT7 where it worked just fine.
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I've never seen that prompt. My install also didn't have QT7 :confused: I had to copy it from my Snow Leopard disk, but yeah, everything works fin in it.

bwana said:
Now the odd thing is quickview works.
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Same here.
 
Hi, I'm a iMac newbie.

One question - I used to have Quicktime Pro on my PC and used it to create timelapse sequences. Now on my new Mac I don't have the " File>Open image sequence" option anymore?

I don't want to use iMovie as the Quicktime route is much faster. Please can you help?!
 
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