Singer display not showing in dual mode

[djkj56@sbcgloba]

I have the wallpaper showing in the dual display and have followed all instructions but cannot get the singer display to appear on my tv when running hoster. Any suggestions??

[ddouglass]

Start a song in Hoster and double click on the song display. That will make it move to the second screen. Or you can put your cursor on it, hold down the left button and drag it to the second screen.

[slsides]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

Start a song in Hoster and double click on the song display. That will make it move to the second screen. Or you can put your cursor on it, hold down the left button and drag it to the second screen.

this is kind of related to a thing i'm seeing.

when i double-click the singer's window, instead of maximizing to the secondary display it does a weird thing where it takes about half of the primary display. i can drag it to the secondary display and then manually resize the window so that it takes up most of the space, but it doesn't behave in the manner you described. any thoughts?

shaun

[ddouglass]

Shaun after you have dragged it to the secondary double click on it there and it should go to full screen.

[slsides]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

Shaun after you have dragged it to the secondary double click on it there and it should go to full screen.

nope. does the same thing no matter which display it's on when i double-click. :P

[ddouglass]

When you are saying "Singer's Dispay" are you talking about the lyrics or the Singer's Name Display?

[slsides]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

When you are saying "Singer's Dispay" are you talking about the lyrics or the Singer's Name Display?

the window with lyrics that you double-click on to send maximized to the secondary display. the other thing, if i've gathered up the terminology correctly, would be the SND, right?

shaun

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by slsides

the window with lyrics that you double-click on to send maximized to the secondary display. the other thing, if i've gathered up the terminology correctly, would be the SND, right?

shaun

Be sure the TV is turned on before the computer, so when Windows runs up the video card can recognize that the secondary is there. For the properties of the secondary make sure it is set to "Extended" and that it is active (not shaded). It is also best to set both primary and secondary to same screen size minimum being 800x600 with preferred being 1024x768.
If all this is right start a song. When the lyrics window opens up drag it to the secondary and try double clicking on it again. ( I hope you haven't been trying this with the smaller preview screen in the upper left of the Hoster screen.)

[slsides]

yeh, it's set up right. i've done it with the tv plugged in prior to the computer firing up and when the computer is already booted when the tv gets plugged in. i get the same behaviour either way.

[sbequette]

I've been having the same problem. My laptop crashed on me, and I had to buy a new one and for reasons unrelated to KJing I have to run Vista despite all of the warnings to use XP. I downloaded Hoster 3.321, and after installing, I was unable to move the Singer Display to the second display. I'm well aware of what I need to do to move it to the second display as I have used hoster on my old laptop for over a year now. I would get the same results. Finally I figured out what I needed to do to get the window moved (listed below) but even after that double clicking on the wondow to go fullscreen would send the window back to my laptop display and it would take up half the screen. I don't know if this fix will work for you, but here is what I had to do to get things to work like they used too:

1. My initial setup had my main Laptop Display as Display 1 and it was setup to the RIGHT of my secondary display 2 (you set the locations of your displays in the same place you check to extend your desktop). This mirrors the physical location of my displays so when I move the mouse to left off my laptop, it naturally carries over to the display I have on my left. In this configuration, I was not abble to move the singer display off my laptop (in any direction). Oddly enough by setting my secondary display to the RIGHT instead of to the left, I was able to move it fine, with just the annoyance that I have to move the mouse in the opposite direction of where the display really sits. I don't understand why this is an issue, but I have confirmed it several times. Anyway, that should get you to the point where you can move the window to the secondary display, on to the fullscreen problem.

2. Originally I was not able to double click and keep the singer window on the secondary display, it would always come back to the primary and take up half the screen. I fixed this by changing the resolution. I found that fullscreen mode on the secondary display only worked reliably when BOTH the laptop and secondary display settings are the same and only on 800x600 or 1024x768 (don't confuse with 1280x720 or 1280x800 as these did NOT work). At that point I was able to double click on the window like normal and get it to go fullscreen on the secondary display.

3. Oddly enough after I got the window to go fullscreen and save it's position, I was able to switch the RIGHT/LEFT order of the displays back and although I couldn't move the window back to the second display, double clicking would make it go to fullscreen on the second display.

I'm not sure if this issue is Vista Related, Hardware related, specific to my laptop vidoe card, or specific to this build, but it is definately not improper configuration of the duel view unless I missed something in the manual stating that the software now requires only those resolutions and only for the positioning to be display one on the left and display two on the right.

In all the above steps got me from the frustration to working again (although I would prefer to be able to have my main laptop display at a higher resolution than 1024x768 for the other things I use when DJing) so I hope they can get you where you need to be.

For those from MTU, this issue is also related to a previous post about videos (i.e. music video, mpg, wma, avi, etc) not showing up on the second display. Even after the above mentioned fix, videos like MPG and AVI do not display on the secondary display. It leave a blank black screen with audio playing. This is NOT a codec issue since the videos do play fine if your window is on the main screen. It is also not a frame rate or capabilities issue since WMP handles playing the videos on the second display just fine. If there is any thing I can send you, i.e. chipset, configuration, so on, to help your resolve it, just let me know.