I want to run a Powerpoint presentation, (actually MediaShout Presentation) using PD. Using MBP I want to set up the external display, which is a standard computer monitor or a large screen projector. I want Powerpoint or MediaShout to show the presentation on the second display, while I control the software using my MBP. This is the standard proceedure on a PC or a Mac for presentations. Using MediaShout in PD would be heaven on earth for a lot of people. (www.mediashout.com) My problem is that I cannot get a second display to show up in the Display control panel in XP. The second display works fine in that I can drag PD to it and use it, but it will not appear as a second display for presentations or show up in the Display control panel. Another thing that I would like to do is have the video driver in PD support the SVideo and RCA video adapter for the MBP. Are these things already supported? I cannot find any info about it in the Manual or in these forums. I hope this makes sense. I'm not very versed in the terminology.
PD emulates a single-display computer. So there is no way you could get this working. ( But as you have a Mac, you'd probably be better doing your presentation with Mac native tools like iWork Keynotes or MS Office 2004 Powerpoint on Mac OS X itself than inside a windows running in a VM. Or do you need some special runtime not available on Mac? )
Thanks, I'm sorry to hear that. I need to run MediaShout (www.mediashout.com) who just dropped their Mac development. Sad.
I see you need some specific tool and they stopped their Mac development. Pardon me this comment, but I find their reasons for stopping Mac development a bit smokey to say the least. Achieving a powerful multimedia app under Mac OS X would be a nightmare according to their explanations, while easier and more effective under Windows. The know-how to do it and hence the learning curve to that know-how is very different, indeed. Well ok, this doesn't help you. Sorry.
