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Making A Videowall

Posted by michael on from the one-is-not-enough dept.

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. Cropping needs improving by fruey · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Great idea, looks good... but in most video walls you have to allow for the space between each monitor when you crop, or reduce the physical space between each. Here, there's way too much space between each screen (both vertically and horizontally) and the images look strange because the cropping doesn't allow for it.

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  2. Wouldn't four quadheads be more usefull by baschie · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It seems that four computers with four pci videocards would cost about the same as one computer with 4 Matrox G200 MMS Quadhead videocards ($699). You would not need all kinds of software distributing the videosource over four computers and it would make administrating and moving the whole system much easier.