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Making A Videowall

Ur@eus writes "Zeeshan Ali Khattak has made a videowall using Red Hat Linux, GStreamer and commodity hardware. The solution was made based on the need to create a flexible and cheap solution for use in Pakistani Schools and Universities using commodity hardware. To find out how this was done and some more details, and of course some cool pictures, check out the Video Whale project homepage."

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  1. simulated by SubtleNuance · · Score: 5, Funny

    For god sakes man

    take those monitors out

    of their cases. Put

    Them closer together and

    kill the funky spacing.

  2. Listen to you! by Matey-O · · Score: 4, Funny

    Jeebus Cripes! These guys whip up a Cool Hack(tm) with scrounged materials, make it work and add to the collective abilities of Gstreamer and all you have to say is 'it looks crappy'.

    What a bunch of hypocrites. The fact that the monitors can be swapped out after a proof of concept, and that you've got the power of four CPU's available (Beo-mumble) is completely lost on you guys.

    And I've figured there'd be at least ONE MPAA crack from somebody.

    --
    "Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus."
  3. Re:16 monitors vs projector by FyRE666 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ok, what if they used a cluster of 16 projectors? ;-)

  4. @#$@ the warl by Nobley · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wire this thing poorly and you might just get yourself a Firewall.

  5. Re:movie.* = comedy by SCHecklerX · · Score: 5, Funny
    Any movie watched on that wall will make it a funny comedy. I mean, just watch the head on this dude!

    So, basically it turns all actors into canadians.

    "What's wrong with their heads?? It's ok, their canadian." (or something like that :)

  6. More importantly, what will they call it? by commodoresloat · · Score: 4, Funny

    What are they going to call a wall from the video whale project -- the Whaling Wall?