Multiple Video Streams
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Does anyone know of a way to stream multiple video/audio source From a PC to multiple monitors (doesn't have to be PC monitors, possible component video or ???)? I am wondering if there is a hardware solution to this issue or if it's not even possible Thanks in advance for any help rendered.
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Does anyone know of a way to stream multiple video/audio source From a PC to multiple monitors (doesn't have to be PC monitors, possible component video or ???)? I am wondering if there is a hardware solution to this issue or if it's not even possible Thanks in advance for any help rendered.
Sounds like you will need multiple video cards. Rocky <>< www.HintsAndTips.com www.GotTheAnswerToSpam.com
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Sounds like you will need multiple video cards. Rocky <>< www.HintsAndTips.com www.GotTheAnswerToSpam.com
I realize my reply is going to get screamed at becuse it discusses programming, but can you force video to go to different video cards through c#?
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I realize my reply is going to get screamed at becuse it discusses programming, but can you force video to go to different video cards through c#?
I am not quite sure how it works with multiple video cards. I would assume different video memory addresses and ports. No clue how Windows handles that. What is your end goal? Rocky <>< www.HintsAndTips.com www.GotTheAnswerToSpam.com
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I realize my reply is going to get screamed at becuse it discusses programming, but can you force video to go to different video cards through c#?
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Not really what I mean. I am trying to make a system that will be used in an auto with each display being able to either watch a video, surf internet, navigate and be independent of each other. One app controlling multiple windows. I've been searching for hardware that would allow me to push through either firewire or usb to the monitor. Th main monitor will be touch screen. X| Regards Eric C. Tomlinson
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Not really what I mean. I am trying to make a system that will be used in an auto with each display being able to either watch a video, surf internet, navigate and be independent of each other. One app controlling multiple windows. I've been searching for hardware that would allow me to push through either firewire or usb to the monitor. Th main monitor will be touch screen. X| Regards Eric C. Tomlinson
each of the monitors you want to drive needs to have a video source. that doesn't just mean some data (like a movie) that you want to display, it means a real live display controller. for most applications that means a VGA-style adapter (although there are other options). so if you want your box to run three different monitors, you need three video controllers, plain and simple. I realize that you *want* to be able to drive the video via some simple connection like USB, but it unfortunately doesn't work that way. you'd need to have a box at the other end of that USB with a display controller in it, that could read the data you send it and reconstruct the display for the monitor. the simplest device like that is a windows terminal, and you'd drive the display as if it were a separate windows session. given the cost and bulk of a windows terminal, you're better off using multiple video cards in your main PC, and running a separate video line to each monitor. if you have multiple video cards in your main PC, you can construct a desktop that "covers" all of them, and position a window on each monitor separately. I *think* that's what you're after.
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Does anyone know of a way to stream multiple video/audio source From a PC to multiple monitors (doesn't have to be PC monitors, possible component video or ???)? I am wondering if there is a hardware solution to this issue or if it's not even possible Thanks in advance for any help rendered.
take a look at the matrox web site, they have a lot of products that acn help you... www.matrox.com[^] then you can also take a look at the msdn, there are lots of information about multiple monitors... NOTE: the matrox graphics cards allow to connect other kind of devices to the vga output (it is done by using a special cable that comes with the graphics card).
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Does anyone know of a way to stream multiple video/audio source From a PC to multiple monitors (doesn't have to be PC monitors, possible component video or ???)? I am wondering if there is a hardware solution to this issue or if it's not even possible Thanks in advance for any help rendered.
Its like a yes and no question. If you are using seperate video cards then windows will give each view its own resolution, display, etc. Most people these days though use dualview cards (one card, two outputs). When windows encounters these cards, it may acutally treat them them as two halves to the same screen. So to program what you wanted, you really would need to use seperate video cards then when streaming the a/v, specify to what card/display. If you are going to use a dualview card, it will be with playing with the screen coordinates and splitting the view and sending the image to the appropriate "half". Hope this helps some. Discovery consist of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought -- Albert Szent-Györgyi Name the greatest of all the inventors: accident --Mark Twain
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Its like a yes and no question. If you are using seperate video cards then windows will give each view its own resolution, display, etc. Most people these days though use dualview cards (one card, two outputs). When windows encounters these cards, it may acutally treat them them as two halves to the same screen. So to program what you wanted, you really would need to use seperate video cards then when streaming the a/v, specify to what card/display. If you are going to use a dualview card, it will be with playing with the screen coordinates and splitting the view and sending the image to the appropriate "half". Hope this helps some. Discovery consist of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought -- Albert Szent-Györgyi Name the greatest of all the inventors: accident --Mark Twain
This is what I finally determined that would work. Wish things like this were easier.