3D Display Hardware/Software Solution?

Posted by Cliff on Saturday November 20, 2004 @06:48AM from the innovative-video-ideas dept.

Daemon8666 asks: "I've searched for three days with no luck. A client of mine has developed a brand new type of 3D display. To make it work, he needs me to come up with a way to synchronize 3 simultaneous video feeds on one box, and output them to 3 separate devices, as follows: Comp playing Videos A, B, and C in sync, and outputting Video A to Monitor X only, Video B to Monitor Y only, and Video C to monitor Z only. He is currently using 3 off-the-shelf DVD players that he controls with one remote (he pushes play, and all three separate DVDs start together), but he really wants a single-unit solution. Any ideas what hardware/software I should use?"

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Extra wide frame by Descartes · 2004-11-20 09:17 · Score: 2, Interesting

I agree that you should use 3 video cards in one machine, but I think you should make all three videos into one extra wide frame.

So if it's 640x480 per frame, but squish them all together in a 640x1440 mpeg and let the output display across the three devices. That stops you from having complex software to synch three seperate players.