How to Play One Video IN 3 Separated Screen? WHich Software Does that?
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FACTplayers
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I've never done this, but always wondered how others got it to work. I always assumed they used expensive hardware... Anyways, a quick google searched returned a few results....
Try this link, they use VLC (great program imho).
How to split video across multiple screens using VLC - GROK Knowledge Base
Edit: I'm assuming you will need a video card for each monitor you want to connect to, then just drag and drop the VLC window onto the screen and hit play. This will be relatively easy with a desktop; near impossible with a laptop.
Edit 2: Here is another solution:
"We solved this in quite a low tech way. Instead of playing one or two videos across multiple PC screens, I mastered the different regions to standard DVD video. Four discs were put in four DVD players of the same model and brand, and triggered by a single IR remote.
Result: No-frills, perfectly synced multi-screen video. Hope this helps mate."
Perfectly synced is a little bit of a stretch. It might work, but with longer clips, frame accurate syncing simply doesn't work unless you use special DVD players that support that sort of functionality. Over time, they will slowly drift out of sync by several frames even if they are started together.
MarshallPope
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Take a look at this: Multi Monitor Adapter for Maximum Performance | TripleHead2Go
I think it will do what you need, if I am reading your post correctly.
I think it will do what you need, if I am reading your post correctly.
Is there any other sugesstion for it... Because i need multiple input and switching to other laptop during the show! not just play the video all the way.. there is still got power point that i have to show on screen! Just the video part is divide in three screen! Any trick to do that! Multiple Switcher? I using Extron ISS 506 !
FACTplayers
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Can you please re-phrase the question using proper grammar? I'm not trying to be offensive by any means, but I literally get lost trying to understand what you should be saying along with the end goal. I, by no means, am saying I am perfect, but please try to re-phrase the question in its entirety.
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From what you have previously stated, you need the following:
Computer A will play a video.
Computer B will display a powerpoint presentation.
Each computer will display its own visual presentation onto three different screens which must make up one large screen.
Only one computer will project at a time.
Edit: Only the video from Computer A needs to be displayed on multiple screens in parts which, together, create the larger image.
Edit: Computer B's powerpoint only needs to project onto one screen.
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Additional question: Can the two computers be compiled together so as to not be switching the overall input?
Edit Additional question: Which of the three (3) screens does the powerpoint presentation need to be displayed on?
This question has no bearing on anything, but why is this set up the way it is? It seems overly complicated for no reason.
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From what you have previously stated, you need the following:
Computer A will play a video.
Computer B will display a powerpoint presentation.
Each computer will display its own visual presentation onto three different screens which must make up one large screen.
Only one computer will project at a time.
Edit: Only the video from Computer A needs to be displayed on multiple screens in parts which, together, create the larger image.
Edit: Computer B's powerpoint only needs to project onto one screen.
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Additional question: Can the two computers be compiled together so as to not be switching the overall input?
Edit Additional question: Which of the three (3) screens does the powerpoint presentation need to be displayed on?
This question has no bearing on anything, but why is this set up the way it is? It seems overly complicated for no reason.
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NicktheEvil
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That was going to be my next question. cause if that can happen you can do 3 different screens with a triplehead2go.
MarshallPope
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Does the Powerpoint and anything else other than the video need to be stretched across all three screens, repeated on each screen, or only on one screen?
FACTplayers
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Ah, I missed that. From an older post it sounds like ONLY the video needs to be on the 3 screens. I'm really curious as to why this set up is the way it is.
Here is the issue to quote from Matrox
Is full screen DVD and video playback supported with TripleHead2Go?
Yes. If your laptop or desktop computer is already equipped with a DVD player, you will be able to watch a DVD or video content on any of the monitors of your multi-monitor environment. Playback will be as smooth as it would have been without TripleHead2Go. Note that the native size of video file determines if the video plays across all your monitors.
The key here is that UNLESS you have the native size of the video large enough for the combined resolution of the three screens it will NOT stretch. This is where applications like Arkaos can allow you to create a video stream with the necessary resolution. In my experience the typical dvd playback software will NOT. so you will get a movable video window, and the ability to place the video on any monitor but NOT stretch it over all three.
Sharyn
FACTplayers
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Wouldn't it depend on how the software handles stretching and skewing of the video over the screens? I imagine the software should be "smart" enough to add the black bars commonly seen on tv's which do not have the same aspect ratio as the video being played.
Adding black bars is one thing, generating a 3x display is another, most of the playback apps I have seen that are standard top out at 1920 so if you wanted 3 1024 displays it would not work The matrix unit is not all that intelligent it takes the resolution you give it and chops it into three parts
Again if you use an ap like Arkaos or Resolume that scales the content to what ever size you want then it will work
Sharyn
Again if you use an ap like Arkaos or Resolume that scales the content to what ever size you want then it will work
Sharyn
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