[openlp-dev] Output displays

[Ken Roberts]

Well, I can think of several things where multiple projectors with
separate video controls would help:

Kids Kamp (or VBS for you older generation) has kids move with song
words - the secondary monitor would be used for the stage leaders to
see the moves while the sanctuary projector would be projecting the
song words for the congregation. Of course, keeping the songs video
and the moves video in sync would be icing on the cake :)

I visited a church once that had church projector showing the song
words, and a second projector viewable by the stage leaders that also
included next slide information so they had a heads-up as to what was
coming next. Forgot what software they were using.


On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 4:49 AM Philip Ridout <phill.ridout at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, 9 Apr 2019, 12:07 Tomas Groth, <second at tgc.dk> wrote:
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>> Hi!
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>> As you write, there have only been made preparations for adding support for multiple display, it has not been added yet, so in some sense this is still a hypothetical discussion.
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> In some sense yes, but I'm having to think of these scenarios as its already complicating the screen handling code I'm working on. For example, the live and preview controller preview widgets, what should their aspect ratio be based on? What happens if one of the screens are a different resolution?
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>> A really great use case for multiple displays that a hardware splitter can't do is displaying multiple languages.
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> OpenLP can already be tricked in to using multiple displays, just set a "custom geometry" that spans across multiple screens. Then multiple languages would be configured to show side by side, or one above the other.
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>> Regarding stage view, I think it would be great if users could set up a stage view display from OpenLPs screen/display settings.
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> I'm with you on that one, that would be one feature my church would require if I'm to convince them to switch back to OpenLP.
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> Phill
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