[openlp-dev] Output displays

[James Muscat]

Words of Worship is an old, but still-used piece of software that supports
multiple outputs, so you can (for instance) have text rendered full-screen
on one output for the "house" displays and only show two lines at a time on
another for a live-stream output (or whatever). Its underlying data model
was designed to facilitate this, so there's no concept of "slides" - output
is all dynamically generated.

@Ken - what you're describing in your final paragraph sounds very much like
the "stage view" or "stage display" of a number of pieces of software
(including OpenLP).

On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 at 14:23, Ken Roberts <alisonken1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 9 Apr 2019, 12:07 Tomas Groth, <second at tgc.dk> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> >
> > 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?
> >
> >> A really great use case for multiple displays that a hardware splitter
> can't do is displaying multiple languages.
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >> Regarding stage view, I think it would be great if users could set up a
> stage view display from OpenLPs screen/display settings.
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Phill
> >
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