VLC Desktop mode spanning multiple monitors

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I have recently found out that VLC had a desktop mode and well i saw that some people was using this to have the ISS Livestream as their desktop background.

VLC was started inside Desktop Mode and the stream http://iphone-streaming.ustream.tv/uhls/17074538/streams/live/iphone/playlist.m3u8 loaded perfectly but instead of going on one screen its spans both of them, Is it posible to have it displayed on one monitor only instead of spanned across?.

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Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

Monitors: 1920×1080 and 1366×720

Best Answer

There are to ways how you can fix it.

1. Using command line

Open cmd.exe and go to VLC path (it is usually in C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC). Now run following command:

vlc --video-wallpaper --align=2 --qt-start-minimized http://iphone-streaming.ustream.tv/uhls/17074538/streams/live/iphone/playlist.m3u8

This will start your stream in wallpaper mode --video-wallpaper and only with a systray icon --qt-start-minimized and will set the alignment of the video to the right screen --align=2.

For more help on command line options visit this VLC Wiki

--align={0 (Center), 1 (Left), 2 (Right), 4 (Top), 8 (Bottom), 5 (Top-Left), 6 (Top-Right), 9 (Bottom-Left), 10 (Bottom-Right)}

2. Using GUI

Go to Tools → Preferences, then select All in the Show settings group. This will show you whole bunch of available options. Then go to Video and search for Video alignment option. This options is set to Center by default. Change it to Left or Right in order to select your monitor in wallpaper mode. This worked for me. I hope it will do it for you too.

Related Solutions

How to stream multiple files on demand in VLC

VideoLAN Manager is a small media manager designed to control multiple streams with only one instance of VLC. It allows multiple streaming and video on demand (VoD). This manager being a new feature, it can only be controlled by the telnet interface or the http interface.

Steps : http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/ch05.html

For Exanmple

vlm configuration files.

new channel1 broadcast enabled
setup channel1 input http://host.mydomain/movie.mpeg
setup channel1 output #rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.1,sap,name="Channel 1"}

new channel2 broadcast enabled
setup channel2 input rtp://@239.255.12.42
setup channel2 output #rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,sap,name="Channel 2"}

control channel1 play
control channel2 play

Video On Demand Basic example

First launch the vlc

% vlc --ttl 12 -vvv --color -I telnet --telnet-password videolan --rtsp-host 0.0.0.0:5554

Then you connect to the vlc telnet interface and create the vod object

new Test vod enabled
setup Test input my_video.mpg

You can access to the stream with:

% vlc rtsp://server:5554/Test

Stream desktop using VLC

 vlc.exe screen:// :screen-fps=30 :screen-caching=100 --sout '#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,vb=4096,acodec=mpga,ab=256,scale=1,width=1280,height=800‌}:standard{access=http, mux=ts, dst=192.168.0.1:8080}'