Sat / PC - split screen advice

[mattsnapper]

Happy New Year Sat People

My motorized dish is running perfectly and I need a new challenge!

As I have stated on here before, I am thinking of building a PC connected to possibly a T-90 for my next project for feed hunting.

I build a PC and get a graphics card with HDMI output, can I have the PC running with 2 monitors, one showing a full frame view of the received satellite image and the other with all the controls etc when using applications like ProgDVB / DVB Dream etc?

I have never used these applications and would like to know if my little plan would work.

 

[Topper]

Well progDVB is just a program so I can only think there would be no problem in doing that indeed someone may already do it.......... there is a small problem that I can see though and that you would of course require two graphics cards for two screen outputs or a laptop with an added external screen, it would of course have to be very high spec PC/processor to handle HDMI output. I will see if I can simulate similar on my laptop with DVB-T stick and report back


Edit

Yes I can confirm that it works fine with my DVB-T stick as per my very poor photo

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[mattsnapper]

Thanks Topper!

I was supposed to be at Ewood Park tonight but snowed off! Stay warm in Blackburn

 

[Topper]

Thanks Topper!

I was supposed to be at Ewood Park tonight but snowed off! Stay warm in Blackburn

Well you can understand why when you consider I am only about 2 miles from Ewood park and had this much this morning
http://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/...n-hatches-here-we-go-again-10.html#post895834

 

[hexah]

I would suggest using NVIDIA Ge-Force graphics cards as you may need to use Linux or some Linux based recovery tools at some stage.

ATI does not support Linux well, or at all in some cases.

 

[Vipersan]

Hi ..
Most Dual head Graphics cards will allow the display area of the pc to 'span' two monitors ...
Effectively this means that you would open the application ....say Dvbviewer on the main monitor ...
Then you could simply open the channel list window and drag this to the second screen .....
...literally drag it from one monitor to the other...
I guess you could then open a channel in the main window...go to TV or full screen mode...and simply change channels with the channel list which should still be visible on the second monitor..
Hope that makes sense..
99% sure this _would_ work ....as I used to do something similar some while ago ...
Just so I could watch TV whilst carrying on with my work .
Its what dual head graphics cards were made for I guess..
..and if memory serves ...you can also have different resolutions set on each 'head' ..or monitor..
rgds
VS

 

[Topper]

Yes VS that is exactly what I did on my rather bad simulation with my HD DVB-T freeview stick, the dragging across takes a bit of getting used to but it works fine

 

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