Multi-AV out cards in one MP server

ikoonman · 2007-08-08, 14:40

Hi

Sorry for the post - it may have been asked previously.

I've been playing around with MP and was wondering if it's possible to connect multiple tv's to one MP installation and have each access media independantly from another. I suppose if I had a PC for each TV, I could use the server option, but I have 4 tv's and only 1 pc.

Any advice would be appreciated,

jburnette · 2007-08-08, 14:45

I think there's a couple of problems with doing this. One obviously is that you would have to have 4 instances of MP running, something that I don't think MP allows to happen (though I suppose you could get around that). Then you have the problem of only the primary display being hardware accelerated so the other 3 instances would all tax your processor VERY heavily (that is, assuming you got 4 open at once). I'm sure there's probably more problems than these.

A good alternative might be looking into those UPNP boxes. There's a plugin I believe that allows those to access and I think even stream live TV if you use TVE3. They cost about $100 a piece. Just a suggestion.

ikoonman · 2007-08-08, 15:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by jburnette

I think there's a couple of problems with doing this. One obviously is that you would have to have 4 instances of MP running, something that I don't think MP allows to happen (though I suppose you could get around that). Then you have the problem of only the primary display being hardware accelerated so the other 3 instances would all tax your processor VERY heavily (that is, assuming you got 4 open at once). I'm sure there's probably more problems than these.

A good alternative might be looking into those UPNP boxes. There's a plugin I believe that allows those to access and I think even stream live TV if you use TVE3. They cost about $100 a piece. Just a suggestion.

I was worried you were going to say something like that

Thanks, I'll look it up.

Are there other products that can do what I need?

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ikoonman Portal User Join Date: Aug 2007 Age: 34 Posts: 2 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Country:	Multi-AV out cards in one MP server Hi Sorry for the post - it may have been asked previously. I've been playing around with MP and was wondering if it's possible to connect multiple tv's to one MP installation and have each access media independantly from another. I suppose if I had a PC for each TV, I could use the server option, but I have 4 tv's and only 1 pc. Any advice would be appreciated,

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jburnette Portal Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Kentucky Age: 23 Posts: 731 Thanks: 135 Thanked 98 Times in 54 Posts Country: My System	I think there's a couple of problems with doing this. One obviously is that you would have to have 4 instances of MP running, something that I don't think MP allows to happen (though I suppose you could get around that). Then you have the problem of only the primary display being hardware accelerated so the other 3 instances would all tax your processor VERY heavily (that is, assuming you got 4 open at once). I'm sure there's probably more problems than these. A good alternative might be looking into those UPNP boxes. There's a plugin I believe that allows those to access and I think even stream live TV if you use TVE3. They cost about $100 a piece. Just a suggestion.