If you have a TV attached to your computer/video card via an S-Video cable, you probably noticed the max resolution that S-Video can output to a TV is 1024x768. This works great for people who have monitors that are running at the same resolution in Clone Mode. But if you have a monitor that has a much higher native resolution that your TV, clone mode becomes a joke because it can't show you the whole desktop.
How many people use their TV as an actual monitor instead of a TV? I don't, and I'd bet most people just use it to watch motion video, and could care less about much else.
IDEA: When you play a video with VLC, or any other media player, it should export a duplicate video stream to the TV at full screen right off the bat, independent of the actual media player window the video is contained in. You could even minimize the video to your task bar, continue with your work, while the video going to the TV remains at full screen.
And of course, this could just be an added feature people could choose to use or not. Because I know there are some people out there with HDMI instead of S-Video and probably do use their TV for some form of production work. But for people with S-Video, it's just not practical to use your TV as a computer monitor and you'll get more use out of it if you can watch video at fullscreen without having to change your screen resolution on your monitor back to 1024x768. And if you can watch video on your TV separate from your actual monitor, you can continue to use your computer for other things.
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