Quicktime Player cannot display fullscreen on external monitor under Lion

Originator:jhawk
Number:rdar://10770487 Date Originated:28-Jan-2012
Status:Open Resolved:
Product:Quicktime Product Version:10.1 (501.5)
Classification:UI/Usability Reproducible:Always
 
28-Jan-2012 01:39 AM John Hawkinson:
Summary: Quicktime Player cannot display fullscreen video on an external monitor under Lion

This is a serious regression from 10.6 and it makes Quicktime Player useless for external presentations that have to be seemless. Of course this relates to Lion's Fullscreen model.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open MPEG in QT Player
2. Position window on External Display
3. Cmd-F

Expected Results:
Video should show on external video projector / large monitor

Actual Results:
Video shows on laptop's 15" display.

Regression:
This worked properly in 10.6.

Notes:
The workaround of moving the menu bar to the external monitor is not acceptable. Then the people watching the video projector see a title bar and perhaps a desktop.

Instead I have to use VLC.app instead of QuickTime Player.

Should I file this as a Lion bug already? Surely many people have, but I'm not sure how to describe it in AppKit terms.

Comments

Simple answer

I wasted lots of time restoring snow leopard, had bootcamp problems after that, one full day wasted.

Download old version off Quicktime 7 made for Snow Leopard and Lion. Link http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3678 . It places it in the Utilities directory. Problem solved on that end, but not on the developers of the new upgraded software. I don't know what kind of drugs they use but they sure are not good.

By wes.bceen at July 7, 2012, 2:59 p.m. (reply...)

This is a dupe of #9249735.

By jhawk at Feb. 8, 2012, 5:41 a.m. (reply...)

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