Hey everyone, have been trolling the forums a bit and haven't seemed to come up with an answer to my problems. Firstly i cant get anything to come up on my 2nd monitor. I think i have all the settings correctly - Its identified as monitor 2, windows extends the desktop to it fine just cant get anything to play. When i have the monitor identified as 1 or 3 i get the box to come up on my main monitor (the one that etouch is using)
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Also i cant get the lyrics to load like what alot of people have problems with but nothing seems to help! Ive associated the cdg files with wmp 11, ive tagged them the same as far as i believe, It works fine in wmp 11 but only the mp3 plays in etouch?
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Lastly i cant get my 1024x768 skin to stay as defualt it always goes back to 800x600? Is this normal? Or a feature that automatically sets the desired skin?
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Cheers Daniel
Quote from: livetoride on July 21, 2012, 11:11:00 AM
Hey everyone, have been trolling the forums a bit and haven't seemed to come up with an answer to my problems. Firstly i cant get anything to come up on my 2nd monitor. I think i have all the settings correctly - Its identified as monitor 2, windows extends the desktop to it fine just cant get anything to play. When i have the monitor identified as 1 or 3 i get the box to come up on my main monitor (the one that etouch is using)
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Also i cant get the lyrics to load like what alot of people have problems with but nothing seems to help! Ive associated the cdg files with wmp 11, ive tagged them the same as far as i believe, It works fine in wmp 11 but only the mp3 plays in etouch?
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Lastly i cant get my 1024x768 skin to stay as defualt it always goes back to 800x600? Is this normal? Or a feature that automatically sets the desired skin?
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Cheers Daniel
If memory serves me correctly then quite a lot of us running WMP 11 have problems with getting karaoke working even after installing the plugin that comes with etouch (You have installed this havent you?) im also sure that someone somewhere on this forum has posted a remedy for this problem, Lastly are you clickin on save changes when youve changed your default skin?
Thanks for the reply! Yeah i have installed the driver and even updated to the 4.0 version one. I wasn't getting anything to come up in the version of wmp that came with my xp disc, so i updated to 11, i could always downgrade to a better version if people have more success with it? Also im clicking on save settings button, it saves all of my other changes except the skin size setting :-\
Thanks for your help! Daniel
You could try removing the 800x600 skin from the skin folder to see if that works, bareing in mind that when you re-open etouch you'll have a white screen so you'll have to go back into options and choose the 1024x768 and make that your default skin.
That didn't fix my problem but i un-installed freebox and reinstalled it and that seemed to have fixed my skin issue!
Still haven't figured out my dual screen problem which is starting to give me the shits, i have the settings right as far as i believe but its not working. Is there anything obvious that im doing wrong? Do i need to provide some more information to make it easier?
To be honest with you, I put V8 on my juke and i had the same problems with the second monitor settings so i downgraded back to V7, I think its more stable and i never had any problems with it.
Quote from: GlennCarnell on July 23, 2012, 01:32:30 PM
To be honest with you, I put V8 on my juke and i had the same problems with the second monitor settings so i downgraded back to V7, I think its more stable and i never had any problems with it.
Thanks for your honest opinion! I'll try downgrading tonight when I get home and see how that works! Thanks again
Quote from: GlennCarnell on July 23, 2012, 01:32:30 PM
To be honest with you, I put V8 on my juke and i had the same problems with the second monitor settings so i downgraded back to V7, I think its more stable and i never had any problems with it.
Hey there, I dropped it back to the latest v7 but still no luck, im still getting that white boarded box pop up on my main screen! I'm planing on downgrading wmp to v 10 in the morning and hopefully that might sort out the karaoke problem as said earlier!
Ok, you have 2 issues you are trying to solve here at the same time and it's complicating it for you....
1st you need to get the dual screen working. If you have it set for dual screen you should see the WMP vis on the second screen when normal audio is playing. Once you have this set up then it's easy.
You need to open a MP3+G file in WMP and check it plays fine, you might also want to create the file association. It will only play if the included plugin for WMP installed correctly.
Now you should be golden to play the MP3+G files from E-Touch.
Thanks for your help there barcrest, I thought that would have been the case so that's why I wasn't to stressed about the karaoke part of the setup!
My biggest concern is that I can't get anything to play in the 2nd screen, I don't have a problem with any other programs being played on it! I've identifyed it to the same number as windows shows it and even tried it as number 3 but still no luck! I've tried downgrading to version 7 but no good and I'm about to try downgrading Wmp to v10 or less to try that side!
The mp3+g files work well with my Wmp I have now when I open them directly through the program it's self so I just had the thought that downgrading Wmp is probably pretty useless!
Any other advice?
Ok, lets see..
Do you have the second screen set to show ALL? If not set it to that then set the ID to be 2 and enable it. If you have nothing playing you should see the second screen go black, if it doesn't try changing the ID while it's all enabled until the screen does go black. Make sure the second screen is set to ALL I think that might be where you are having an issue.
you are correct about WMP, if that is playing the MP3+G files you don't have an issue with that.
Hey again, I have the settings as you have suggested and still nothing happens! Tried changing the Id and that but still no black screen! A bit stumped here. I cant even get any movies to show up when i have it set as a single screen.
Can you post a screen grab of your second screen settings so i can take a look.
No Worries here it is -
(http://www.freeimagehosting.net/t/a2eno.jpg) (http://www.freeimagehosting.net/a2eno)
Take the tick out of show no playing and then try each option id in the drop down, if you hit the right one you should see the box appear. Make sure you don't have anything palying.
Thanks for your quick response! Unfortunately that didn't fix the problem either :tommy! Any other ideas? I should mention that my 2nd monitor is running off a dvi to vga converter plugged straight into the back of the video card, could this have any bearing on things?
No it shouldn't matter because even if you only have 1 screen plugged in you should see the second screen appear just on the same screen. I only have 1 screen here and i can see the second screen on the same screen....
Do you have your monitors lined up properly in display settings? Oh please don't tell me it's this old chesnut again... :D
The one you want as the second screen has to be positioned on the right of the main screen in display settings and be monitor 2. The tops have to alight up as well.
That's cool about the adaptor I didn't think it was but could have been a sujestion!
Unfortunately my settings are as you requested, identified as monitor 2 on the right side of main screen and the tops are aligned! I'll screen grab tonight to reconfirm!
Well as i say you should at least see the second screen showing even if it's on the main monitor.
Ive had a win, i updated to v8 again and have come up with the screen shown below.
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I just cant move this across to the 2nd monitor! Any ideas? Thanks alot
Changing the monitor id in e-touch should move it.
Unfortunately it didn't move it when i changed to all of the 3 options available and it didnt move, just showed to texts in the white box artist and artist or something similiar.
Try this and see if this switches screens correctly for you.
(http://www.iamkizer.net/freeboxjukebox/DOWNLOAD.gif) (http://iamkizer.ipower.com/freeboxjukebox/demo/screens.rar)
What a champion that worked perfectly! Dragged it onto the second screen I think it was and it worked straight away! Karaoke and videos are perfect! Thank you so much for all your help it's been beyond fantastic!
Glad you are all working now.
What was that program? I downloaded it but what did/does it do? I havent installed it. Just wondering if it should be included in E-Touch to help others in the future!
Fordman
Fordman - It was a small exe file that helped identify my screens correctly, for some reason freebox wasn't doing this for me causing the 2nd monitor function not to work at all. This fixed my problem and ive only had to run it once and its been great since!