well... i never thought about it... :-) is there anyone around experienced in operating multiple video cards?
graham you are probably right, that's exactly what it looks like, the cards support only (max) two screens at a time. software switching may be an option for watching tv... but for video production we need two big twinview monitors *plus* the tv screen as reference monitor for watching our product. thanks georg On Wednesday, 20. June 2007 15:46:48 Graham Evans wrote: > Kurt Georg Hooss wrote: > > i have made the same test on two different machines, and found the same. > > so i guess this is good for checking footage and rendered results, > > but for the real workflow we still have to use the compositor window. > > > > also, i could find no way of sending xine / mplayer output to tv-out > > except through the x server (twin-view or separate x-screen). > > a desirable solution would be to have extra tv-out apart from x. > > > > probably the most typical purpose would be watching tv through the pc, > > as received by the tv card, and output to an analogue tv set > > which still delivers more brilliant colors than any digital flatscreen. > > > > yes, there is a rather cumbersome way to configure the x server > > to serve the tv and to make mplayer use it in fullscreen mode... > > but apart from difficulty, there are a number of serious disadvantages. > > > > first, one has to sacrifice the higher resolution of the computer screen, > > second, one has to sacrifice any other twinview-connected monitor, > > and third, i could not manage to navigate dvd menus... > > > > obviously there is still a lot to do, probably also with the graphics > > drivers (i have nvidia but i guess ati does not do better) to support > > three devices at a time... there are three connectors on the card! > > I may not understand the situation but I thought the nvidia cards > generally only allowed two of those connectors to be used at once. I > assumed this limitation is incorporated throughout the design of the > card - including the hardware. If so then there is no possibility of > what you suggest. > > One possible avenue of investigatation is whether the external screen > can be plugged in (s-video I assume) and then software switched between > that and the second monitor. Or is it built into the electronics which > connector will take precedence... If it is software switchable then it > might be useful to have cinelerra switch back and forward. > > But honestly I think that's pie in the sky. Why not just use another > video card? It could be a really cheap one. > > Graham E > > _______________________________________________ > Cinelerra mailing list > [email protected] > https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra -- dr.k.g.hooss schoepfung & wandel wissenschaftliche medienberatung breite strasse 6-8, d-23617 luebeck www.schoepfung-und-wandel.de _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
