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Title: Simulated video wall?
Post by: Mametrix-Reloaded on June 19, 2003, 04:05:42 pm

This may be better suited for the software area but does anyone know of a software package that simulates the video walls that were so popular in the 80's? Basically I'm looking for something that would split a second monitor into multiple sections that I could play a video on then and control each section for either the full video, or it's portion of the video.

Title: Re:Simulated video wall?
Post by: NiN^_^NiN on June 19, 2003, 10:38:15 pm

Linux How-to on video wall:

http://docs.linux.com/documentation/03/03/31/1527232.shtml?tid=6

thats all i could find sorry :( might give u an idea on hw to use it for windows ;)

Title: Re:Simulated video wall?
Post by: Mametrix-Reloaded on June 20, 2003, 01:33:24 pm

thanks, I had seen that one and it actually goes to making the true thing. I'm looking for more of a software simulated version. Basically to take a second screen hooked up to a projector and simulate the screen being sectioned and the ability to control each section as if it were really a seperate monitor.

Title: Re:Simulated video wall?
Post by: NiN^_^NiN on June 21, 2003, 08:05:36 am

May i ask why you want to do this?

and maybe 1 of them software packages that lets u have more than 1 desktop open might help u with that :)

Title: Re:Simulated video wall?
Post by: Mametrix-Reloaded on June 21, 2003, 03:06:40 pm

not a problem, we're re-designing our game-room to give it more of an eighties arcade feel to it. I have an old projector that really isn't bright enough to use for movies (got a new one for that) so since the arcade will be a low light setting, I was going to project it on one wall and play videos through it. I just thought it would be something fun to play with.