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<blockquote data-quote="Ruud" data-source="post: 305388" data-attributes="member: 10538"><p>What happens when you connect your touch screen to your video card when resolution is set to 720P format? can it handle this (with black bars on top and bottom (because your touch screen is 4:3 format opposed to yours beamer wittch is 16:9) or does it display nothing at all? As far as I know (please somebody correct me if I'm wrong) is the refresh frequency the limiting factor: if your video card is set to a refresh frequency for your beamer that is not supported by your touchscreen you will end up with problems. Otherwise your touchscreen would show (part) of the screen. My touchscreen scales it back to resolution it can handle (with loosing sharpness which is not noticable because the screen is only 7") My advantage is that the screen's aspect ratio is the same as my TV (16:9) so a perfect circle is still a perfect circle when scaled back.</p><p>Clone mode using two video cards makes no sense: extra video card does not add functionality or speed. Clone mode can be achieved by either splitting your VGA cable (is actually not clone mode but the result is the same) or if your video card has two VGA or a VGA and a DVI output using both outputs to display contents on two screen -> in the driver of your video card you can then tell it to output the same contents (= clone).</p><p>Media portal can differentiate between two screens, but it cannot use two screen at the same time with different content or resolution.</p><p></p><p><strong>IDEA:</strong> I know in the past that Meedio had something like that: 1 screen for output (video / tv etc.), the other for your menus. What they did was actually make a skin that was two screens wide (one side with the 'contents' one side with the menus. When you attach then two screens to your PC (one being the projector and the other your touchscreen) and you configure your desktop to expand over these two screens then you would have MP expand over these two screen. Same as some games do: one screen for 'walking around' the other showing al sorts of controlls etc.</p><p></p><p>I'm not sure if this is actually possible within MP or that you hit some limitations of the application not supporting these kind of desktop features (if not, this is a 'must' have for MP2 because this would open up a whole lot af fancy possibilities!).</p><p></p><p>Any skinner out there that can share some thoughts?</p><p></p><p>Hope this helps... it all sounds very logical to me, but when I read it back i hope you have a very vivid imagination LOL</p><p></p><p>regards,</p><p>Ruud.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruud, post: 305388, member: 10538"] What happens when you connect your touch screen to your video card when resolution is set to 720P format? can it handle this (with black bars on top and bottom (because your touch screen is 4:3 format opposed to yours beamer wittch is 16:9) or does it display nothing at all? As far as I know (please somebody correct me if I'm wrong) is the refresh frequency the limiting factor: if your video card is set to a refresh frequency for your beamer that is not supported by your touchscreen you will end up with problems. Otherwise your touchscreen would show (part) of the screen. My touchscreen scales it back to resolution it can handle (with loosing sharpness which is not noticable because the screen is only 7") My advantage is that the screen's aspect ratio is the same as my TV (16:9) so a perfect circle is still a perfect circle when scaled back. Clone mode using two video cards makes no sense: extra video card does not add functionality or speed. Clone mode can be achieved by either splitting your VGA cable (is actually not clone mode but the result is the same) or if your video card has two VGA or a VGA and a DVI output using both outputs to display contents on two screen -> in the driver of your video card you can then tell it to output the same contents (= clone). Media portal can differentiate between two screens, but it cannot use two screen at the same time with different content or resolution. [b]IDEA:[/b] I know in the past that Meedio had something like that: 1 screen for output (video / tv etc.), the other for your menus. What they did was actually make a skin that was two screens wide (one side with the 'contents' one side with the menus. When you attach then two screens to your PC (one being the projector and the other your touchscreen) and you configure your desktop to expand over these two screens then you would have MP expand over these two screen. Same as some games do: one screen for 'walking around' the other showing al sorts of controlls etc. I'm not sure if this is actually possible within MP or that you hit some limitations of the application not supporting these kind of desktop features (if not, this is a 'must' have for MP2 because this would open up a whole lot af fancy possibilities!). Any skinner out there that can share some thoughts? Hope this helps... it all sounds very logical to me, but when I read it back i hope you have a very vivid imagination LOL regards, Ruud. [/QUOTE]
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