[PD] synchronised video outputs

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

altern wrote:
> hi
> 
> I need to have several video outputs that run in sync. A friend who 
> works in a art exhibition space told me there would be couple of 
> solutions for this but both involve buying pretty expensive equipment 
> like special DVD players.
> 
> I thought then that a solution for this issue could be to have several 
> computers on a local network playing video (with GEM) and synchronise 
> them via OSC. But I dont have any experience doing such a thing, never 
> used OSC for anything similar. Also I dont have a clue about how to 
> synchronise together videos.
> 
> Has anyone done anything similar? any experiences to share?

yes.
we used a dual-head machine (actually it was a quad-head, so we had 
plenty of space for editing...) running a single gemwin covering both 
screens and 2 [pix_film]s that were controlled by the same counter.

since Gem allows you frame-accurate access, the 2 videos were in perfect 
synch.


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