While I've not used the 4-port Osprey, I have used a Spectra8 which has
4 bt878 chips on it. It works very well, just like 4 independent capture
cards except it's only taking up one slot. I don't know if the Osprey
has the same chips on it, I know the Osprey 100 we have uses the 878 so
I could *assume* that it does, but I don't know.
We have a Matrox QID AGP, but we run ours in 'stretched' 2x2 mode and
have had no problems at all.
Derek
Peter DeSantis wrote:
> Matrox QID PCI-e Video Card - 4x DVI / VGA output graphics card
> We used this in an AG, only problem we had was that we could not get it to
> work in the indepednent screen mode. The AG software would leave screen
> corruption trails all over and eventually lock the system.
>
> In the stretch screen mode (where you have all screens same res, and colour
> depth) it work fine, no problems that we could find, and good performance in
> my opinion.
>
> Why it didnt work in the indepednat screen mode i dont know, my guess is the
> driver was not mature enough, that may have changed by now, but i could get
> no response from matrox (other than "we are not aware of any problems with
> this product"). We didnt have another mainboard to test it with, so the
> problems may have been compatability issues, but im leaning to the driver
> issue myself. In the end we left it in the AG, and will prob use it in
> others.
>
> Didnt know there was a 4 channel osprey, gonna check that one out myself
>
> Peter
>
>
>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Just wanting to know if anyone has experimented with or is currently
> using
> >> any of these two pieces of hardware under an Access Grid session.
> >>
> >> Osprey 440 - 4 Port PCI video capture card (due to be commercially
> release
> >> shortly)
> >> Matrox QID PCI-e Video Card - 4x DVI / VGA output graphics card
> >>
> >> Also when testing AG 2.3 with standard onboard motherboard soundcards on
> >> pc's, when we increased the audio quality on RAT using the Linear Codec
> >> up to 44khz that it would generally crash after around 5 minutes. I would
> >> say the obvious problem would be the onboard soundcards. Is there a
> >> recommended soundcard that can successfully maintain high audio streaming
> >> in AG 2.3? I was thinking of something like Soundblaster Live or Audigy.
> >>
> >> Thanks so much for any input or suggestions.
> >>
> >> Kind regards,
>
> >>
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> >> Nathan Gardiner
> >> Human Interface Technology Lab NZ (HIT Lab NZ)
> >> Room 110, Old Maths Building, University of Canterbury
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> >>
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Derek Piper - [email protected] - (812) 856 0111
IRI 323, School of Informatics
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
