Wow A Video Wall, Just What I Always Wanted
Posted by Anthony on Sunday August 23rd 2009 at 15:30.
This started off with me looking for another monitor the same as the one in the studio so I could have a sweet dual monitor setup. I was looking on ebay and came across someone selling 4 15" LCD monitors for £70! I couldn't resist the bargain so I had to buy them. My plan was to mount them on the wall and have an awesome huge screen to watch videos / play Xbox on.
Read on for photos and videos.
It's always nice when you wake up and get a huge box of gadgets delivered. The monitors also came with a 4 way splitter so the same thing could be shwon on all 4 screens.
Yep they all work :) (Bonus points if you recognised the old Three Radio site)
Now to set them up as one big desktop. I also bought another graphics card with dual outputs to do this job,. an Nvidia Quadro NVS (it was cheap).
Let's count them...
...one...
...two...
...three...
...four.
After a little searching I found the driver for the new graphics card and all four were up and running nicely.
Now the interesting part, getting video to span the four displays.
To get this to work in Media Player Classic you need to change the output settings to something other than 'Overlay'. The problem with this is it takes the job of processing the video away from the grapics card and gives it to the CPU. This setup was running on a 2.6Ghz P4 and it didn't work too well.
The first test came out better than expected:
