Thank you for the advice, I really appreciate it. The reason I choose 2 cards instead of the triplehead2go was just to avoid hazzle, if the triplehead2go is easier to setup in Linux then I guess that is what I will use since I don't have much time and prefer to spend it creating nice visuals than setting up video cards.
For the capture card I was also worried about the latency so I will search for one with the bt8x8 chip, I don't know if it is easy because all the hauppauge I see for sale now are PCIe and say they have a new chip that I dont't know if it is working but I can always change it if doesn't work. All good for you. F. Medeiros On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 09:14 +0100, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: > On 2010-11-15 04:01, F. Medeiros wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I will buy a computer for mapping with pd + GEM and it would be nice to > > get some advice before I make a mistake. > > > > I will be using 3 projectors so I though about using 2 nvidia cards to > > get 4 outputs (3 projectors + 1 screen for control), anyone knows if > > this is working easily with Linux? I want to get a Gemwin that covers > > the 3 screens. > > yes that would work fine. > > however i would recommend to get a matrox triplehead2go converter, so > you need only a single (dual-headed) gfx card and you will still be able > to run up to 6 screens with that. > > personally i think that going through the hazzle of installing more than > 1 gfx card is only worth it, if you need to run more than 6 screens. > > > > > I also want to get some video input from a camera or dvd or a VJ, I read > > on this list nice things about the Canopus ADVC-110 so I guess this is a > > good option but since I don't need it to be external maybe someone can > > recommend a nice internal card that works nice on Linux. > > generally all that uses dv as transport, will add quite a lot of latency > to the video. > best thing would be to use some analog grabber card > i have good experience with brooktree/conexant bt8x8 chips (as found on > hauphauppaugepauge and other cards) > > msdfts > IOhannes > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list