That is a good potential work-around. And I will certainly try that out.
But, I would still prefer the dual screen configuration to be natively supported in the Plex Media Player app.
That way there is little or no upfront setup needed, and it would work like PowerPoint’s presenter view.
Thus, the user could just:
- launch the app
- play a video
- the video appears on the secondary monitor.
Using the web app & PMP, the steps are more complicated:
- Launch PMP on the audience screen.
- Make PMP full screen.
- Open a web browser & load the Plex web app.
- Connect the web app to PMP (need to choose the right ‘remote display’).
- Play a video.
- The video appears on the PMP screen.
Granted, that is only a few more steps. But it requires more know-how to get right.
PLUS, and more importantly, the first two steps (launching PMP & making if fullscreen) can be observed by the audience, and I don’t want that distraction. I don’t want the to know how the video is appearing on the screen, I just want it to appear.