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Ted Nordström 2000-05-27 20:11
Hi everyone,
Im soon switching from nt4 to win2k and intend to run a dual monitor setup.
I intend to keep my diamond fire gl1 AGP card as primary because I need the hardware openGL support badly for 3d modeling. When looking at a secondary adapter I am tempted by cards that support hardware video compression (pref mjpeg a), tv-out and even a tv-tuner, such as the all-in-wonder 128 pci and matrox marvel g200(tv) pci. Having done my homework, I realise that there area lot of those things that should not work when using these cards as secondary adapters, but I wonder if anyone have had success with a similar setup? Or any suggestions?
My bios allows me to switch pci/agp video adapter during startup, so maybe I could get things working so that I simply have to reboot and change to capture video/export/or watch tv without the openGL hardwaresupported? Or would that confuse win2k too much to be workable?
Or.....should I just buy a cheap 8mb permedia2 card /or tnt and forget about the hassle (and buy separate cards for video and tv?)
Thanks for any suggestion,
Ted
If you prefer, you are welcome to email me on kent_666@hotmail.com
PS. I don't play games (don't allow myself), so I'm not concerned with directx and that sort of stuff, and live in europe so only PAL is interesting fot tv and video ;)
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Yngwie 2000-05-29 13:18
Hi there, myself using multi monitor for 5 years or so (also Mac in that 5 years), have found to keep it as simple as possible. If your using the TV for some kind of a preview (video editing or animation rendering) as far as that I would recommend 2 montiors and a TV (the TV being preview purposes, if your outputing to tape or what not). I myself have used Media100 on a Mac with that setup and it works real well (but it was being used for video editing). If your wanting TV compatiblily for watching TV when working I would suggest the setup above. Having a TNT2ultra and a S3 plus a ATI TV wonder ( which the TV Wonder is not supported as of yet under Win2000), was a pain I got rid of the ATI (it can be used with an application WinVCR or something like that....its be awhile) and just put a Sony TV in the mix with my 2 Sony Trinitons and it works great. Hope this helps you and if your making the jump to NT4 to 2000 you might wanna check www.ntcompatible.com to make sure the applications your using are compatible with 2000.
Yngwie
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Winger300 2000-05-31 04:29
Im running a similar setup. The TV tuner only work in the Primary display. But Win2K allows you to switch the Primary and secondary without re-booting.
Basically if you wanna watch TV just switch the dispalys with a couple of mouse clicks and your there.
Just make sure that both of your video cards work as secondary displays.
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