6 Screen display wall

[jaloatway]

Say for a moment I were to use: http://www.amd.com/us/products/workstation/graphics/firepro-display-wall...
And monitor grouping, set the 6 tv panels into one large display area.
What software playback programs allow you to full screen playback multiple video sources.
I'm sure you understand what I mean but I'll be a little more obvious:
Upper left 1920*1080pixels will playback xyzxyzxyz.mp4
Upper Middle 1920*1080pixels will playback yyyxxxzzz.avi
Upper Right will playback blah blah blah.blah

Ideally a professional or semi-professional program is preferred. A full screen (like video players are when full screen; borderless / seamless) playback program that you can just drop different sources into different zones within your workspace.
AMD's website has lots of reading material on eyefinity and driving large workspaces or displaywalls. But, there is very little on their website about the software that is running on top of the OS.
The drivers put the screens together - but what good software solutions are there once I have it all setup?


Thank You.

 

[Snortan]

Damn, 6 screen what are you running on that?

Anyway not sure if it works with physical monitors but I've tried with virtual monitors and it works. I used VLC, allow multiple instances and add this conf to a shortcut of VLC

--no-video-deco --no-embedded-video --width=1920 --height=1080

this will remove the controls and be fullscreen borderless. Now drag one instance on every screen where you want something to play and start playing something. It should go borderless fullscreen.
In case that doesn't work create multiple shortcuts of VLC and add this command to each shortcut, replace DISPLAY2 with your display number where you want it to play

--no-video-deco --no-embedded-video --width=1920 --height=1080 --directx-device=\\.\DISPLAY2

Let me know if it works .
EDIT: My bad I've understood something else, but it could still be done with VLC.
Make shortcuts of VLC, allow multiple instances and use this command

--no-video-deco --no-embedded-video --width=1920 --height=1080 --video-x=0 --video-y=0

Now for each shortcut you need to change video-x(left and right) and video-y(up and down) depending on where you want the video to appear.
For example you want two videos to play top left and mid, one will be --video-x=0 --video-y=0, the other --video-x=1920 --video-y=-1.

 

[jaloatway]

A great reply. Appreciate the vlc commands. I happened upon some vlc documentation where someone posted additional vlc commands that can be used. Apparently in their search for something similar to my own they found vlc instructions lacking compared to what it can actually do.

With CCC, and Monitor Grouping, it is relatively simple to create the entire 6 monitors as one monitor; Or at least windows will see it as one monitor with xxxx*xxxx resolution.

Now that I've got Monitor Grouping - and CCC Profiles to switch between single screen VS 6 individual screen setups - I need to find a way to remotely control this PC.
Windows OS has built in remote management; I already use this to get remote sessions to a few Windows Server boxes I help manage. I wonder if the same remote client can control a Windows7/8 box. More importantly, I wonder if a remote session can then tell the actual box to output its running programs to the 6 screens.

Content to be displayed: a large library of content our studio photographers shoot. Still photos, and some video content.

Thanks.

JALO

This - btw - is an interesting solution made by Mitsubishi Electronics.
http://www.play-out.com/composer

I sent a message to their sales team.
But - maybe this is meant to be used with their server architecture. But, YouTube has content about Play-Out_Composer being used on custom built computers with Firepro cards&Monitor grouping.

It treats the monitor workspace as one big(or small if you aren't grouping) layer based canvas. The pixels are the layers, and you can embed anything you want into the pixel space.

Seems, cool, and powerful. And, expensive??

JALO

 

[Snortan]

Now that I've got Monitor Grouping - and CCC Profiles to switch between single screen VS 6 individual screen setups - I need to find a way to remotely control this PC.
Windows OS has built in remote management; I already use this to get remote sessions to a few Windows Server boxes I help manage. I wonder if the same remote client can control a Windows7/8 box. More importantly, I wonder if a remote session can then tell the actual box to output its running programs to the 6 screens.

Don't see why it shouldn't work.
Teamviewer would be another option for remote control.
Don't know anything about play-out but let me know how you get on with it, I'm curious.

 

[Caspar_s]

If you are still looking for this, and don't mind paying for the software, Sapphire have one called PowerCastX - using the Firepro cards even.

http://hexus.net/tech/news/graphics/52725-sapphire-looks-break-digital-signage-market/
That is the only place that mentions price - couldn't find it anywhere on their site.
http://www.sapphiretech.com/proav/software/powercastx.aspx