I need to play videos from a PC to go into a video mixer. Is there a program available, similar to ScreenMonkey, for Linux? I want to use 2 monitors and be able to click the video on one and play with no controls or UI on the other.
Ive not been able to find anything that does exactly what you want. SimpleScreenRecorder comes as close to what you want as i could find. ffmpeg _can_ do it but it would essentially require you to create a program that makes use of ffmpeg as youd need to incorporate a few other programs/libraries to do it.
Could you do it with VLC? Maybe some script to allow you to click the video in a file manager like pcmanfm and then it opens in fullscreen VLC on the second monitor with the controls hidden