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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."
starving children aplenty, uneducated masses, and violence over religious differences, and they're messing with redhat to watch The Matrix. Way to utilize those funds!
Pakistani-based schools are breeding grounds for new terrorists. Linux freaks are obviously terrorist sympathizers and deserve to be locked away in Gwantanamo Bay with the rest of those bearded, unwashed zealoted freaks.
Try making video floors that you can walk on. Another idea is try video-tubes, like and America's Funniest Home Videos. Then of course, you can progress to video-domes, and video-spheres. Once you've built up a real good collection of monitors, you can move into the world of video-architecture.
You've posted almost every story for the last 24 hours, don't you have a job? don't you have a girlfriend? what the hell is wrong with you, leave your fucking chair and do something.
Maybe all the a**holes posting are totally feeling f**ked by the corrupt m$ ruling of yesterday and need to take it out on the someone. Naaaagh... they're just a**holes.
I for one find this hack exciting because it demos the power of OS. In a place where they have to bust their asses to find pci cards and their monitors are too valuable to remove from their cases. It's just a demo folks. And they did it in Pakistan. Not Redmond.
"Don't Follow Leaders." Bob Dylan
If you want to make a huge screen out of many smaller ones take the tubes out of the cabinets and get them closer together or find monitors with smaller bezels. I think they make monitors designed for those video walls in mind. Hate to say it but the picture sucks!
OTHO for the right application, it is a clever hack.
You're an idiot. The cropping he was referring to in his article is entirely different to the type of cropping suggested by a multitude of posters in this thread.
The article describes cropping as cutting monitor-sized squares out of a video stream, splitting it into an array of several streams.
The posters in this thread are talking about additional cropping to reduce the warping caused by the spacing between the monitors.