Hi, everyone...
MAC mini's for digital signage:
I've been following the "video in exhibits" thread with Interest.
I'm looking to build a small scale video and signage distribution system
(6 screens?). I prefer sending content over the LAN to using VGA over
CAT5 devices (e.g. extron).
Right now, MAC Mini's are looking far and away the best value for money
for the endpoint device that will actually drive the displays.
A couple of questions:
1) Is there a good, free or low cost Powerpoint Viewer for MAC OSX?
MS don't offer one and TonicPoint Viewer seems very minimal and unsuited
to being set up to automatically play a signage-type presentation.
2) does anyone have experience streaming high definition VGA video from
PC to MAC? ...I'm interested in the hardware and software required.
Looking at distributing a full motion 1280 x 768 VGA output (PC) to some
of the MAC Mini driven displays. Do I need to get hardware to capture
and stream the VGA output, or can I do this with software only?
...all insights (...hints, tips, abuse, derision...) cheerfully
accepted!
David Marsh
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David Marsh
System Administrator
H.R. MacMillan Space Centre
Vancouver Museum
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-----Original Message-----
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Bruce Wyman
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 3:12 PM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] videos in exhibits
>Is there some form of technology that has been developed that can
>use one hard drive and 8 different point of displays showing 8 the 8
>different films?
Do the movies run independently or are the synchronized with each other?
My first thought would be to use a mac pro with 4 dual headed
graphics cards (8 video outputs (There are also 4 port graphics
cards, so 2 of those would do the same trick)). On each screen, play
a single full-screen movie. (The computer's going to treat it as a
single large contiguous desktop space).
Depending on the movie resolution, the computer'll probably do fine
with the playback, especially if you use a quicktime happy codec like
H.264.
-bw.
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Denver Art Museum / 100 W 14th Ave. Pkwy, Denver, CO 80204
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