[PD] synchronised video outputs

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>> 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.

but we might need up to 6 to 8 video outputs, thats too much for the 
same machine. Thats why I thought about having a machine per video 
output connected to a LAN and synchronised via OSC.

enrike