Kris Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Hi all What would be the best approach to play three streams of video to seperate projecters. They need to be synchronised so I don't think original idea of using mp4 players in conjunction with some control software work I'm thinking more of having the video clips as files on a machine equiped with three seperate video cards. This could then play out through software with a timeline playout where each video track can be sent to a seperate card. Does such a pice of software application exist? Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjrails Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 HiHave a look at Show Cue Systems PC software (Here) it's very versitile and you can trigger off multiple tracks at once and send them to various selectable outputs. or you could try QLab for the Mac (Here) PJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smalljoshua Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Many pieces of software will allow you to send multiple video to multiple monitors. Multiplay will do a basic form of this for free. Josh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete McCrea Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 PlayBackPro+ on Mac will let you sync multiple machines to a network time server for pretty much frame accurate replay. Not the cheapest, but pretty reliable, and available for hire from a range of companies, including us... :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Riley Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Renewed Vision Pro Video Player can do this reliably as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Gordon Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Have a look at Show Cue Systems PC software (Here) it's very versitile and you can trigger off multiple tracks at once and send them to various selectable outputs.Multiple video screens are coming in SCS 11 (presently in beta). See this thread in the SCS forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleepytom Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Do you need the streams to be frame accurately synced? what resolution are the projectors (and the content?) I would suggest a Datapath X4 to chop the 3 screens out of a single output from either a computer or some kind of HD media player. This will give perfect sync more affordably than any other methord. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon street Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 The data path x4 looks cool, but matrox have had a unit out for a long time called a triple head2go. You can pick them up on eBay cheap and run very stable. Various versions analogue or digital well worth having. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleepytom Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 The matrox box is greatly inferior to the X4 - the matrox 2go boxes need very specific input resolutions and timings to work, they are not all that stable (for example rebooting them can cause EDID related errors) they work just about well enough for one off event use, but for a longer term install they are likely to be the thing which goes wrong and requires technician call outs to fix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHYoung Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 +1 to that- reliable and stable isnt the matrox product. Prone to overheat, limited resolutions, unreliable and often difficult to get working is the more accurate version. The X4 is a different thing that does the same job and ive been using them for a year or so, cant fault them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon street Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 Fair enough. How much does the x4 retail at? Wouldnt mind getting my hands on one. True that the matrox units can be a little bit of a pain to set up, but I have had them running at month long lumieres, and have found them rock solid after the initial hair pulling stage. Just lucky I guess, certainly have found no overheating issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleepytom Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 They are slightly less than a grand inc VAT. IIRC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadpixel Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 Why not just use a PC with a triple head graphics card and play a video with the canvas spanning the 3 screens using VLC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon street Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 Oww... thats a little out of most Theatres buidgets, might have to live with the triple head for a while longer then... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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