From: Klaus W. Eisenlohr (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Sep 28 2007 - 15:51:38 PDT
Hallo Austin/ Mike
thanks for the recommendations.
What I found so far is a multple moitor card for
laptops (still talking MAC) called VTBook.
http://www.villagetronic.com/vtbook/index.html
This seems to support upto 3 external monitors on
a powerbook. And it also seems to be okay in
pricing.
What I did not find is a player that would
support presentation mode on multiple screens. On
a search I steped on MPlayer, but I could not
figure out if that would do the job, it was not
clear from the descritption, and it is rather
difficult to install. As far as I understand, you
need to download components and to build MPlayer
yourself (I will try it, but it needs some more
reading on my side on how to use the terminal, it
is a long time I used it). Does anybody know if
MPlayer does multple full screen presentations?
Is there any other MAC player that does it?
At the moment it looks like this would be the
most fisible possibility, the Dave Jones Design
is out of question as it works only with the
professional Pioneer DVD player Dvd Pioneer
V7300d in Europe, which is outrages in price. And
I do not have a programmer who would configure
MAX/msp for me.
Thank you very much for the help.
Klaus
>synching multiple channels of video can be done...
>
>-with multiple video cards and multiple
>screens/projectors. in fcp you can make a
>project file with a custom aspect ratio of 2160
>x 480 (for 3 720x480 videos), then put 3 videos
>in that file and export as one movie. when you
>play/loop the movie each screen/projector can
>display 1/3rd of the 2160x480 screen... and
>depending on how long your cables are, you can
>spread out the screens/projectors all over the
>place, all playing from one (powerful) computer.
>
>
>-austin
>
>
>On 9/27/07 1:53 PM, "Michael Wechsler" <email suppressed> wrote:
>
>Though I have not used it much, I seem to
>remember reading something a few months back
>about how Abelton Live could be used in
>conjunction with another program to trigger
>video loops. Anyone on this board using Live to
>do any video mixing?
>
>The cheapest way to get multiple video outputs
>from a computer is just to put multiple video
>cards in it. Find a cheap PC perhaps and stick
>some video cards in it or find a bunch of cheap
>video cards for a Mac or Linux tower and have
>one video running on each screen. With one
>video output, as from a laptop, could you
>possibly have both videos on the screen side by
>side and simply mask out one on each projector?
>That is most likely the cheapest way to do
>things. In all of those solutions you just have
>to be sure your computer can handle playing back
>so much full screen video.
>
>Hope this helps!
>Mike
>
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