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Multiple screens on the same MD? Multi-GPU?

Started by Schmich, July 12, 2008, 01:55:15 AM

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Schmich

Heya, this is my first post in this great place =) Been reading and planning things this past week(s) and keeping on learning new things that the system is available to do. There's one thing I haven't been able to find any information on: is it possible for one MD to work on 2 TV's at the same time?

I'm planning to have 2 TVs close to each other. One large TV close to the MD and a smaller one will be placed 3 or so meters away around the corner. This latter one doesn't need good quality so the TV-out (S-video) output on the graphics card would be just fine. So basically, to make it clear (I'm the worst person at explaining stuff), is an MD with a GFX card (lets say a GForce6+ with 2 DVI's and 1 S-video) able to use one of the DVIs for one TV and the S-video to another at the same time?

If this isn't possible, would it be possible if the MD had a second graphics card? eg. the soon to be released Geforce 8 series on the PCI slot that roberto99 posted about (http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=5748.0)

Thanks


totallymaxed

Quote from: Schmich on July 12, 2008, 01:55:15 AM
Heya, this is my first post in this great place =) Been reading and planning things this past week(s) and keeping on learning new things that the system is available to do. There's one thing I haven't been able to find any information on: is it possible for one MD to work on 2 TV's at the same time?

I'm planning to have 2 TVs close to each other. One large TV close to the MD and a smaller one will be placed 3 or so meters away around the corner. This latter one doesn't need good quality so the TV-out (S-video) output on the graphics card would be just fine. So basically, to make it clear (I'm the worst person at explaining stuff), is an MD with a GFX card (lets say a GForce6+ with 2 DVI's and 1 S-video) able to use one of the DVIs for one TV and the S-video to another at the same time?

If this isn't possible, would it be possible if the MD had a second graphics card? eg. the soon to be released Geforce 8 series on the PCI slot that roberto99 posted about (http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=5748.0)

Thanks

Currently you need one MD per screen... and i dont see that changing in the near future. But this is an open source project so you could gather some like minded people around this idea and implement it ;-)

All the best


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Schmich

Quote from: totallymaxed on July 13, 2008, 10:55:50 AM
Currently you need one MD per screen... and i dont see that changing in the near future. But this is an open source project so you could gather some like minded people around this idea and implement it ;-)
I wish! I guess this idea will have to wait a long while =)

Darren404

I found it was easier to use a 4-port VGA splitter instead of using MDs.  You can get them on ebay for around $30 or just a single VGA splitter for $10.  I live alone and dont have any need to play different media content in different rooms.  this option would also save on your energy bill.

I know you are wanting S-video and are using TVs not monitors, but this is how i solved the problem.

Cheers
My house runs Linux

darrenmason

My understanding of the original question was that it was just an additional screen showing the same content on both.

If that is the case then that should not be a problem. I certainly had a laptop MD doing just that with its screen and an external monitor.