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glynor's Great Wall of Video
glynor:
--- Quote from: JimH on November 28, 2007, 06:39:55 am ---We'd be interested in giving you a quote. We have a small group in Phoenix that does custom servers. They're part of JRiver. They just built our TV server for about $2800. Multi-processor, multi-core, 1TB disk, rack mount case with special cooling. A beast. You could save money doing it yourself, but they'll save you time and aggrevation. I think your requirements might fit really well with their skills.
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Absolutely Jim. I'm going to discuss this with my boss further today and we'll send you an email.
glynor:
So, supposedly the vendor is going to be bringing us our new screens on January 28th (I'm not holding my breath). Hopefully I'll actually be able to kick the wheels on this thing for real, and get some cool stuff done with MC and the video wall!!
Still remains to be seen if they'll be replacing just the displays, or the whole system. We'll see!
benn600:
So you're looking at essentially five displays? That doesn't seem that tough does it? I was running three displays for quite a while with no problems at all. Why not just buy 3 high end 2-port DVI cards and set them up in Windows as 5 monitors? I hear people have trouble with multiple monitors but I have gotten multiple monitors working on several boxes with almost no issues...and like I said, I was running 3 for a while. Oh, now that I think about it I had a 4th going. It was a 21", 2 - 20", and a 27" 720p. And that was with low end graphics cards. My current card cost 6 times as much and can handle hardware decoding of quite a bit.
The displays definitely require some attention to get a nice clean look like you've got.
I used MC for running our last theater show at school and it worked flawlessly. I ran ~10 videos, ~25 videos, and several music tracks...all with specific overlaps and queues. I never had a crash and zones gave me all the power I needed. Then it was left to human error. I didn't have any major mistakes on my part. gappie provided me assistance for hiding the OSD and that sealed the deal. MC ran the show!
glynor:
--- Quote from: benn600 on January 07, 2008, 09:48:43 pm ---So you're looking at essentially five displays?
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Those are 8 separate 42" DLP displays (being replaced by 8 separate 42" LCDs).
Video needs to be able to scale across them all. So, in those pictures.... The center 4 screens are all showing one video (scaled across 4 displays). Try doing that with a standard video card, with HD content, and see what happens to your frame rate -- assuming your card can even pull it off.
benn600:
Of course if you prepared the video by splitting it ahead of time into four parts then that changes things.
But ic.
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