buxtahuda
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So, we've just set up a second monitor on a system at work to display certain advertisements and information to customers. That means the monitor is not visible to me while at the station, and although it's easy to manage playing a full-screen video on it I need full functionality and control without moving all the equipment around.
At the moment I'm playing with VLC to attempt a stream of the secondary display to the primary display; I'm not doing so well as I can only make the primary display get captured. I don't want to have to use a RD s/w and go to an entirely other computer (although that's an option I'm putting in place) just to manipulate what's being shown on the secondary display.
I wouldn't particularly mind a dedicated s/w just to get the needed preview, but so far I haven't found a single solution that actually works. (found an old program called extdesk, but it's the opposite of what I need and didn't work)
I appreciate any help ahead of time, and look forward to gaining some knowledge regarding this type of situation.
*EDIT:
Now that I think about it, my computer tech teacher years ago used to monitor all our different machines with her one, with I guess a VNC. This would be similar to what I'm wanting, only I need it for multiple monitors on one local machine as opposed to multiple machines.
At the moment I'm playing with VLC to attempt a stream of the secondary display to the primary display; I'm not doing so well as I can only make the primary display get captured. I don't want to have to use a RD s/w and go to an entirely other computer (although that's an option I'm putting in place) just to manipulate what's being shown on the secondary display.
I wouldn't particularly mind a dedicated s/w just to get the needed preview, but so far I haven't found a single solution that actually works. (found an old program called extdesk, but it's the opposite of what I need and didn't work)
I appreciate any help ahead of time, and look forward to gaining some knowledge regarding this type of situation.
*EDIT:
Now that I think about it, my computer tech teacher years ago used to monitor all our different machines with her one, with I guess a VNC. This would be similar to what I'm wanting, only I need it for multiple monitors on one local machine as opposed to multiple machines.