SMPlayer Support Forum

Hi,

I have a 3 display setup: two of them are joined together as screen :0.0 and the other one (a TV) is screen :0.1.

In "Smplayer / Send video to screen" they are listed as
1- DVI-I-1 (primary screen)
2- DVI-D-0
3- HDMI-0

1- and 2- is X screen :0.0 while 3- is X screen :0.1.
If I select 1- or 2-, the video is sent to the correct monitor. However, if I select 3-, the video is sent to 2- instead. I have no way of sending the video to the TV.

If I use mplayer as a backend, I can get around this by adding the "MPlayer/mpv option": -display :0.1.
If I use mpv as a backend (which I would like to), I am unable to send the video to the TV. The "MPlayer/mpv option" "--screen N" doesn't work (it doesn't work from the command line either).

Is this a bug? What can I do?

smplayer-16.9.0-1.fc24.x86_64
mpv-0.20.0-2.fc24.x86_64
mplayer-1.3.0-1.fc24.x86_64
Fedora 24

SMPlayer uses functions from the Qt library to get the coordinates of the available screens (you can see detailed information in View -> Information about connected screens) so if this is not working properly I think it might be a bug in Qt. Or maybe SMPlayer is not placing the window in the correct position. Could you send the info from the option View -> Information about connected screens?

SMPlayer can only place the video window on a screen if it's part of an extended desktop. It seems your 3rd screen is not within the extended desktop so SMPlayer can't move the window there.