Hi, one quick note from my point of view: > I have found one gotcha, maybe down to having 2 dual-head video cards > rather than one triple or even quad-head card (the latter were rather > expensive at the time; I'm not sure if quad head was available at > all, but triple head certainly was at a price). One of the regular I started buying a Matrox QID PCI quad-head videocard and found out, that it is not worth the money for displaying video. I use VLC-player to playback multicast streams and get at least 15fps (estimated). Than I replaced it with the PCI-Express 16x version, but I still get a maximum of 20 fps for 3 displays. And even if I configure the card to only use one display the video does not get better. The second amazing fact is, that when you place a vic-window on the second display of the QID-card the frame appears on tat display, but the video will be displayed on the first display.... :( To make an long story short: My actual configuration is like the Pauls config. I use one dual-head videocard (Matrox G550 PCI) for the two rearprojections and the QUI card for the local monitor... What a shame :( But it works. Two low cost G550 are cheaper and better than one expensive QID-quad videocard. And I can display video on all three displays.
> uses is joint teaching of a Physics 4th year course that has students > here and at a remote site (Rutherford Appleton, for the UK readers of > this list). We sometimes played a DVD locally at each site, and some > players - I think some versions of media player and Cyberlink > PowerDVD - get upset at running full-screen on a secondary graphics > card. The master card drives the console monitor, only using one of I have not found out any problem in displaying fullscreen with the mediaplayer on the secondary display of my g550. But I am an little bit surprised, because I expected the same problem, as you describe. Regards, Roman