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Mur 2000-10-05 12:24
I just got my dual monitor setup working on Windows 2000 (primary card Hercules GF2 MX, secondary Diamond V550 TNT1 PCI). Everything is working swell so far and I'm beginning to ponder the possibilities.
I'm wondering which TV Tuner will be able to display on the second monitor. I've noticed that some apps won't display on the 2nd monitor (like realplayer). I've been eyeing a hauppauge card, anyone have experience with this one, or any tv tuner card in general? Any insight or experience is greatly appreciated, much thanks.
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Rene 2000-10-05 23:00
I have a dual monitor setup (Asus v3800 TNT2 PCI plus a Diamond Stealth II PCI) with a Miro PCTV card (now called Pinnacle PCTV).
The TV window can NOT be dragged onto the second screen in my setup.
specs
Win98 SE
Asus TX-97-XE motherboard
AMD K6-3 400
I hope this helps.
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Jeffrey Cornish 2000-10-17 04:38
Several of Appian's line of multiple monitor graphics cards support the display of tv/video on multiple monitors under Windows NT 4.0.
Jeffrey Cornish
Senior Technical Support Representive
Appian Graphics Technical Support
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Kyle 2000-10-23 09:59
This problem stems from the fact that Windows does not support DirectX and /or OpenGL on the second monitor. without going into the details, both DX and OpenGL make calls assuming the answer is coming from a single display and there is no way to specify a second display... (man, I'll be psyched when they fix that....) TV Tuner/capture cards use DirectDraw overlay to display the TV data stream in the window, and since DirectDraw only works on the primary display, it just doesn't work on the second monitor. The Appian cards use a cool work around (hardware/software?) that redirects these calls to the primary and secondary display chips (which are both on the same card) and makes the whole process tranparent to DX or OpenGL. Very cool stuff, but unfortunately not for the budget-minded. a quick check on pricewatch shows the price ranging from ~500 to ~1000 bucks. Granted, these are PRO level cards, and kick major butt, but they're outta my league- Maybe someday, Appian will enter the consumer level arena and show Matrox how it's done, but until then us plebes will have to frag OR surf...
On a side note, a lot of people use Voodoo cards for second monitors expressly because Glide works fine whether it's primary of secondary. I haven't tried it myself, but if that's the case, you could watch TV on the primary and frag away in glide mode on your secondary... heheh, maybe I should go get me a V3 2k PCI right now...
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cedric 2000-10-30 09:57
You can get a semi-choppy TV on your second display by turning off overlay.
I'm running a BT848 TV card with a Matrox Millenium secondary and Geforce DDR primary.
I couldn't tell you the FPS i'm getting, but it is watchable.
I use the ExtremeTV98 program on my secondary, that way I don't have to reconfigure my usual program.
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