hardware (9 TV 1picture), and software

[ikar]

Hello,

Im french so excuse me for my bad engligh !!!

I'm a new members of VJcentral. I would like to know what is the more software use by you:

I use Resolume (for pictures successions), Arkaos (for movies sequences), VisualJockey (for good atmosphere) and I use midi-controller with Arkaos.

I try using midi-clock control with music but no veritably success...
what do you use ?

Every can give his configuration...

And a final question : How "hang" or "place" it a big picture on a lot a TV (for example 9 TV) (look joint picture).

Thanks

[TZ]

salut et bienvenue ici :-))

pour ton histoire de tv, sois tu loue un dispatcher qui "scinde" ton signal en fonction du nombre d'ecran (la majorite des loueur parisiens ont ca), sois, si tu est doue en electronique, tu peus te le construire, on trouve les plan sur pas mal de site (celui de dave, par exemple, je crois)

a plus


fab from TZ

[Meierhans]

I`m interested in something that enables me to view on 9 TV`s.
But my french is really bad - i don`t get the mess :confused:
Could you please repeat it in english?

[AudioVisualizers]

As Fab was saying:

You could rent a video wall controller which "divides" your signal according to the number of screens (the majority of the rental houses in Paris, France have these), or, if you are skilled in video engineering design, then you can build it yourself: http://www.audiovisualizers.com/madlab/pdfschem.html

Incidentally a client of mine has a large # of RGB videowall controllers for sale. Old stuff though. contact me directly if interested.

[Meierhans]

Wow!
Didn`t find that one.

About old controller: Around what price would it be?
(PM if you want :cool: )

I didn`t find a complete circuit for a VW controller, but i also think its pretty to hard to build.
I followed the dicussion on eyecandy (normal controllers are to expensive, PC with capture board + 4 PCI graphic cards -> interlaced lines......)
As far as i can see there is no cheap or easy DIY solution .
Am I right?

Such a pitty, C64 Monitors are cheap like hell!

[krokodril]

I really don't remember where but there is a site about a linux project which uses a network to do the job. .......

and i now just remebered.. here's some of the text i saved... forgot to bookmark though....Video Whale ProjectVideo-Whale Project
Team:
Concept: Umer Anwar Sheikh
Developer: Zeeshan Ali Khattak (zak147(AT)yahoo.com)

Special Thanks: Wim Taymans (wim.taymans(AT)chello.be) & the Gstreamer team.
Introduction
The video-whale project is an implementation of video-wall which exploits the
combined power of Gstreamer (www.gstreamer.net) & Xinerama.
Overview
Every group of four displays (monitors) are controlled by one machine. So there
is a LAN of four machine behind the video-wall in the pictures below. Xinerama
seems to work flawlessly for four displays. There are two Gstreamer applications
making it all happen: a client and a server. All four machines are running the
client application, that receive mpeg1 system stream from the network,
de-multiplexes, decodes, crops the images according to its need from the decoded
stream and show it on the screen. One of the four machines, besides running the
client Application also runs the server Application. The server application is
only responsible for reading mpeg 1 system streams from a file and send it out
on the network.
History
Well it all started when my friend Mr. Umer told me about video-walls and that
he had just realized the basic idea behind them. He told me that you just need
to crop regions out of the video streams & then treat them as individual
sub-streams. As he was telling me all this, I tried visualizing Gstreamer doing
all the tasks needed.
I rather quick realized that the only extra component we needed in Gstreamer was
one that that did the cropping for us. At the same time I also saw that my
knowledge about multimedia and GStreamer was not good enough to allow me to
write this element. So I tried asking my friend Wim Taymans if he would be
willing to take on the task of writing such a plugin. He was kind enough to do
that not only because of my need, but also because he saw it as another nice
feature of Gstreamer that would be needed by many others.
After I had done this I once again discussed the possibility of implementating
the video-wall through Gstreamer with Mr. Umer, who runs his own Research
Company named North West Research (in Pakistan). Northwest Research funded the
project which we named Video-Whale, which was also a suggestion of Wim Taymans.
It turned out however that our biggest problem was finding PCI video cards in
Pakistan whose XFree86 drivers could do XVideo, this in a situation when its
hard to even find PCI video cards at all in the market. Solving this problem of
lacking parts took us 3 months and at one point we even considered abondoning
the project. We still need more cards because we do not have more than these 16
s3virge/DX cards. If any of the cards stop functioning, we are out of business.
We plan on using these videowalls in Pakistani Universties and Schools to let
them quickly set up videowalls for use in the classrooms when need be. Due to
this we really need more cards so if anyone reading this has such videocards
they don't use anymore and would be willing to send us, please contact us on
email.
Anyone interested in the videowalls on a commercial basis is also of course
welcome to contact us.
Pictures of videowall in action



sorry if this thread is unreadable now... hope it works
:jump: :jump:

[krokodril]

www.datapath.co.uk

they do it the pro way, though i just picked up a secondhand 4 screen pci model 'twinfinity' for 25 euro...(2mb ram pro screen so not that pro anymore)