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Video Cards w/2 HDMI Ports Out? Video & Audio?
I have done this using a dell imedia (nothing flash mind) just today in fact and joined just to reply. I connected the tv via hdmi and my monitor via VGA. First of all I open control panel -- appearance & Nividia. I then select advanced setup if first time using. I then select setup multiple -- independent monitors. You should be able to select your monitor and TV (samsung here) from drop-down menus. I then adjusted the resolution in display settings (right click desktop) - monitor is set at max and monitor 2 (tv) is set at at 1280x1224 so it fills screen. If you have overlay (image of screen adjust resolution or go into tv options and resize via just scan (if available on your tv). To get separate sound (right click volume) and then select hdmi as default. I then drag across my application i'm watching (streaming football or movies) over to the tv and start it. Bingo sound and picture. I then select speakers as my default device and then get separate application sounds from pc speakers. Hope this helps - Im currently looking a way of getting 2 hdmi outputs fingers crossed. Ps you might want to download ultramon for assisting in moving stuff across screens. update - you can get usb to hdmi adapters. ive not researched them yet but google this USB TO HDMI CABLE CONVERTER ADAPTER - LAPTOP PC TO TV. Cheaper models available. |
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Video Cards w/2 HDMI Ports Out? Video & Audio?
Albert;875123 Wrote: Are there video cards that have 2 HDMI connections as opposed to DVI. So that they can be run to a TV and a Monitor, video and audio in the same cable? On the video card I Used my computer Monitor with DVI to DVI and ran the HDMI to HDMI on the TV Monitor. Synchronized the monitors to run the same display on both screens with the computer. Set the resolution and everything is running smooth. In the Control Panel go to sound and change the setting to Digital Sound HDMI (This all takes a couple of min.) |
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Video Cards w/2 HDMI Ports Out? Video & Audio?
Albert;875123 Wrote: Are there video cards that have 2 HDMI connections as opposed to DVI. So that they can be run to a TV and a Monitor, video and audio in the same cable? When Trying to use your computer to play downloaded movies to your TV monitor from one Video card on your computer, run the DVI to DVI cable from your computer monitor to the video card then run from the video card HDMI to HDMI to the TV monitor. You will need to synchronize the monitors in the control panel under Display. (1/2 Multiple monitors) Then in the control panel under Sound, You will need to set the default to “ Digital Audio HDMI” This only takes a few minutes. I’m running 50 foot of HDMI cable to my TV with a booster at the TV end. I’m running windows 7 and everything runs perfect. Jim |
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Video Cards w/2 HDMI Ports Out? Video & Audio?
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:16:36 -0500, Jim1
wrote: Albert;875123 Wrote: Are there video cards that have 2 HDMI connections as opposed to DVI. So that they can be run to a TV and a Monitor, video and audio in the same cable? When Trying to use your computer to play downloaded movies to your TV monitor from one Video card on your computer, run the DVI to DVI cable from your computer monitor to the video card then run from the video card HDMI to HDMI to the TV monitor. You will need to synchronize the monitors in the control panel under Display. (1/2 Multiple monitors) Then in the control panel under Sound, You will need to set the default to “ Digital Audio HDMI” This only takes a few minutes. I’m running 50 foot of HDMI cable to my TV with a booster at the TV end. I’m running windows 7 and everything runs perfect. Jim Why is there a need for a booster? What does it do? |
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Video Cards w/2 HDMI Ports Out? Video & Audio?
Syfo-Dyas wrote:
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:16:36 -0500, Jim1 wrote: Albert;875123 Wrote: Are there video cards that have 2 HDMI connections as opposed to DVI. So that they can be run to a TV and a Monitor, video and audio in the same cable? When Trying to use your computer to play downloaded movies to your TV monitor from one Video card on your computer, run the DVI to DVI cable from your computer monitor to the video card then run from the video card HDMI to HDMI to the TV monitor. You will need to synchronize the monitors in the control panel under Display. (1/2 Multiple monitors) Then in the control panel under Sound, You will need to set the default to “ Digital Audio HDMI” This only takes a few minutes. I’m running 50 foot of HDMI cable to my TV with a booster at the TV end. I’m running windows 7 and everything runs perfect. Jim Why is there a need for a booster? What does it do? Cables are lossy at high frequencies. The TV TMDS receiver chip has limited sensitivity. The signal is launched at a high amplitude, and shrinks as it goes down the cable. If the received amplitude is not sufficient to trigger the TMDS receiver properly, you see "digital noise" as colored speckles on the LCD screen. At some point, the circuitry after the receiver declares there is no valid signal, and the screen goes blank. "Boosting" means signal regeneration. Signal regeneration can be of two types. Naive regeneration is simply an amplifier. The problem with that is, it can add jitter to the signal. Time domain jitter, degrades the eye diagram when you try to receive the data at the receiver. Full digital regeneration, would intercept all the bits, recover the clock, then clock out the data using a built-in PLL. The idea would be, the PLL would be a low-jitter way, of launching the data on the outgoing side of the booster. So that's the basic concept. Now, the HDMI standard, may not have a "you must never use more than X meters of cable" thing to it. If the cables are cheaply made, they might only be good to 3 meters length. A better quality cable might double or triple the length (depending on who you believe). Then, bodging together boosters might further increase the potential range (until things like HDCP break due to protocol problems caused by all the garbage used to carry the signal). It's very much the kind of business the folks at Monster Cables would want to sink their teeth into :-) (Plenty of opportunities to extol the virtues of gold plated this and that.) In other words, if you keep the computer close to the TV, it doesn't cost too much to make the connection. If you want to run a TV on the other side of the house, it could be more expensive, and involve testing and returning stuff to the store. You can go further than copper cabling (regular HDMI cables), by using fiber optic cabling and active optical transceivers. This is the first example of using fiber optics to do the job that I could find. You can see the prices here, are pretty high. http://www.dvigear.com/hdfiopca.html Have fun, Paul |
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Video Cards w/2 HDMI Ports Out? Video & Audio?
On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 04:31:20 -0400, Paul wrote:
Syfo-Dyas wrote: On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:16:36 -0500, Jim1 wrote: Albert;875123 Wrote: Are there video cards that have 2 HDMI connections as opposed to DVI. So that they can be run to a TV and a Monitor, video and audio in the same cable? When Trying to use your computer to play downloaded movies to your TV monitor from one Video card on your computer, run the DVI to DVI cable from your computer monitor to the video card then run from the video card HDMI to HDMI to the TV monitor. You will need to synchronize the monitors in the control panel under Display. (1/2 Multiple monitors) Then in the control panel under Sound, You will need to set the default to “ Digital Audio HDMI” This only takes a few minutes. I’m running 50 foot of HDMI cable to my TV with a booster at the TV end. I’m running windows 7 and everything runs perfect. Jim Why is there a need for a booster? What does it do? Cables are lossy at high frequencies. The TV TMDS receiver chip has limited sensitivity. The signal is launched at a high amplitude, and shrinks as it goes down the cable. If the received amplitude is not sufficient to trigger the TMDS receiver properly, you see "digital noise" as colored speckles on the LCD screen. At some point, the circuitry after the receiver declares there is no valid signal, and the screen goes blank. "Boosting" means signal regeneration. Signal regeneration can be of two types. Naive regeneration is simply an amplifier. The problem with that is, it can add jitter to the signal. Time domain jitter, degrades the eye diagram when you try to receive the data at the receiver. Full digital regeneration, would intercept all the bits, recover the clock, then clock out the data using a built-in PLL. The idea would be, the PLL would be a low-jitter way, of launching the data on the outgoing side of the booster. So that's the basic concept. Now, the HDMI standard, may not have a "you must never use more than X meters of cable" thing to it. If the cables are cheaply made, they might only be good to 3 meters length. A better quality cable might double or triple the length (depending on who you believe). Then, bodging together boosters might further increase the potential range (until things like HDCP break due to protocol problems caused by all the garbage used to carry the signal). It's very much the kind of business the folks at Monster Cables would want to sink their teeth into :-) (Plenty of opportunities to extol the virtues of gold plated this and that.) In other words, if you keep the computer close to the TV, it doesn't cost too much to make the connection. If you want to run a TV on the other side of the house, it could be more expensive, and involve testing and returning stuff to the store. You can go further than copper cabling (regular HDMI cables), by using fiber optic cabling and active optical transceivers. This is the first example of using fiber optics to do the job that I could find. You can see the prices here, are pretty high. http://www.dvigear.com/hdfiopca.html Have fun, Paul Thanks paul very informative! |
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Video Cards w/2 HDMI Ports Out? Video & Audio?
I use a single hdmi cable out from my intergrated video card GEFORCE 8200 and run it into an hdmi switch box 4 x 2 which allows me to connect 4 hdmi in puts and display all of those 4 inputs on 2 seperate out puts. one out put goes to a 23" computer monitor and the other goes to a 50" plasma tv monitor. I cam watch the same thing or both monitors or different thins on the monitors bith the remote that came with the $50.00 from mertline. |
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