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wrybread2
Question about multiple monitor support...
Mar 21st, 2009, 6:48am  
I need to draw a pretty simple output on up to 9 monitors...I'm wondering if that's possible with Processing?

For the most part this'll be a simple color on each of the 9 screens (different on each), and sometimes pictures, and if possible sometimes a movie, possible a single movie split over all screens.

Is such a thing possible in processing?

If necessary, I was thinking about using VLC's "wall" mode to handle the video playback over 9 screens.

Thanks for any tips.
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PhiLho 
Re: Question about multiple monitor support...
Reply #1 - Mar 21st, 2009, 9:10am  
I believe you need to look at the MostPixelsEver library. Although you must have a corresponding hardware, of course, at least 5 graphics cards in the same PC, or perhaps a group of computers coordinated with network functions.
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wrybread2
Re: Question about multiple monitor support...
Reply #2 - Mar 21st, 2009, 9:35am  
Thanks, MostPixelsEver looks fantastic.

One question though: in the wiki, it says "The Most Pixels Ever library is a software solution for taking a single-screen real-time graphics application (developed in Java) and spanning it across multiple screens (each connected to a separate computer)." Does that mean one computer can't have multiple monitors attached to it?

http://code.google.com/p/mostpixelsever/wiki/HowThisWorks
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PhiLho 
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Reply #3 - Mar 21st, 2009, 6:07pm  
As I wrote, you have to investigate first the hardware possibilities. In standard world, modern graphic cards has two outputs, so can control 2 screens. Perhaps, but I am not sure, you can put several cards, although I don't know how the computer manages them, if it can.
Perhaps there are some special devices for your kind of usage, I don't know.
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wrybread2
Re: Question about multiple monitor support...
Reply #4 - Mar 21st, 2009, 10:25pm  
I'm all set on the hardware. You can indeed put multiple graphics cards in a computer. I've run 3 dual head cards in the past, and more than that is no problem. And there are triple head cards too, though I haven't used those yet.

All I'm wondering about is the software side.

FYI, for Windows, the Ultramon forum is an excellent resource for extreme multi monitor support.
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