BNC input is usually associated with Security monitors, Marshall and Orion made some small ones. Not sure you will ever find a easy way to send 8 diff pictures from a PC to 8 diff monitors.....
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ElectroSoldier wrote on 2023-12-27, 06:39:weedeewee wrote on 2023-12-27, 05:45:VGA to RCA adapters exist. Matrix switcher is not a video wall controller. One routes signals, the other splits'm up in parts. H […]
VGA to RCA adapters exist.
Matrix switcher is not a video wall controller. One routes signals, the other splits'm up in parts.
Hooking up a digital panel with a composite input up to vga by removing the composite input and adding a vga to whatever adapter to drive the panel. sigh.Might as well use a PiWall .
ElectroSoldier wrote on 2023-12-27, 01:29:It might sound like one, and might well be one under the skin but the only connectors it has is BNC in and BNC out 4 times, one for each panel.
Link to product ?
Does a Raspberry Pi have composite outputs? I thought they were all digital outputs on there.
IIRC the connector is there on 2 and prior, you can break it out on the 3, not sure what happened on 4 and 5, think 4 might have still had the signal on the board.
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Well there you go.
Now all I have to do is find 4-8 RaspberryPi4s
This https://www.westardisplaytechnologies.com/pro … ter-ezsplitter/
equipped with 4 type A output boards
example application 2 & 6 show how it can be used to partition one display input into four display outputs.
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Can somebody tell me exactly what this device is/does?
I look at it and get a feeling it not what I need but it looks like it might be.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/134795675714?_trkp … 7Cclp%3A4429486
rasz_pl wrote on 2023-12-26, 22:48:This thread has devolved to "how to google HDMI to Composite converter" 🙁
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weedeewee wrote on 2023-12-27, 20:34:rasz_pl wrote on 2023-12-26, 22:48:This thread has devolved to "how to google HDMI to Composite converter" 🙁
Yes, this part of the rule 'Assume good faith from other participants' is difficult to maintain.
I dont know how many times I can tell you in how many ways.
I do not want HDMI.
I dont want HDMI at all in any part of what Im doing.
I have Displayport or ideally DVI-I... I can convert the DVI to VGA with an adapter...
None of that involves HDMI.
ElectroSoldier wrote on 2023-12-27, 21:56:I dont know how many times I can tell you in how many ways. […]
weedeewee wrote on 2023-12-27, 20:34:rasz_pl wrote on 2023-12-26, 22:48:This thread has devolved to "how to google HDMI to Composite converter" 🙁
Yes, this part of the rule 'Assume good faith from other participants' is difficult to maintain.
I dont know how many times I can tell you in how many ways.
I do not want HDMI.
I dont want HDMI at all in any part of what Im doing.I have Displayport or ideally DVI-I... I can convert the DVI to VGA with an adapter...
None of that involves HDMI.
ElectroSoldier wrote on 2023-12-27, 20:12:Can somebody tell me exactly what this device is/does?
I look at it and get a feeling it not what I need but it looks like it might be.
Yet, here you are
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weedeewee wrote on 2023-12-27, 22:04:ElectroSoldier wrote on 2023-12-27, 21:56:I dont know how many times I can tell you in how many ways. […]
weedeewee wrote on 2023-12-27, 20:34:Yes, this part of the rule 'Assume good faith from other participants' is difficult to maintain.
I dont know how many times I can tell you in how many ways.
I do not want HDMI.
I dont want HDMI at all in any part of what Im doing.I have Displayport or ideally DVI-I... I can convert the DVI to VGA with an adapter...
None of that involves HDMI.ElectroSoldier wrote on 2023-12-27, 20:12:Can somebody tell me exactly what this device is/does?
I look at it and get a feeling it not what I need but it looks like it might be.Yet, here you are
That was a simple question about what it is.
Ive said over and over and over again what I have and what I want to do.
I do not have a graphics card with 4-8 HDMI connectors on it.
I do not want to use HDMI in any part of getting the signal out of my computer.
I want to feed a composite video signal to a monitor that has a BNC connector for its composite video signal 4-8 times... and that should not include an HDMI connector or converter.
I have an NVS 420 with a 4way DVI connector. I have an NVS 510 with 4x MiniDP connectors. I have 4 DVI to VGA adapters.
I can buy another NVS420/510 if required to get the outputs from 4 to 8.
I do not want or need a video wall or RaspberryPi.
Each monitor, which are much smaller than your usual monitor, should be displaying its own Windows desktop complete with icons.
If it wasnt for the fact that I need to do this over composite video it would be just your regular old Windows desktop computer with an 8 head video card. (or two 4 head video cards)
I think, while it wasnt actually suggested here but was illuded to here, I will try getting 4 of these and see how it goes
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204407798683
Yah I tried a few search strings designed to step around googles artificial stupidity yesterday and found pretty much that solution proposed on several professional video type forums.
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ElectroSoldier wrote on 2023-12-27, 22:25:If it wasnt for the fact that I need to do this over composite video it would be just your regular old Windows desktop computer with an 8 head video card. (or two 4 head video cards)
Which windows version ?
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weedeewee wrote on 2023-12-28, 15:13:ElectroSoldier wrote on 2023-12-27, 22:25:If it wasnt for the fact that I need to do this over composite video it would be just your regular old Windows desktop computer with an 8 head video card. (or two 4 head video cards)
Which windows version ?
Im not sure what computer that is relating to.
ElectroSoldier wrote on 2023-12-27, 22:25:Each monitor, which are much smaller than your usual monitor, should be displaying its own Windows desktop complete with icons.
Which windows version ?
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weedeewee wrote on 2023-12-28, 23:20:ElectroSoldier wrote on 2023-12-27, 22:25:Each monitor, which are much smaller than your usual monitor, should be displaying its own Windows desktop complete with icons.
Which windows version ?
Yeah I got that.
Im not sure what computer youre talking about though.
Do you mean the one I intend on putting the little screens on or?
ElectroSoldier wrote on 2023-12-28, 23:39:Yeah I got that. Im not sure what computer youre talking about though. Do you mean the one I intend on putting the little screen […]
weedeewee wrote on 2023-12-28, 23:20:ElectroSoldier wrote on 2023-12-27, 22:25:Each monitor, which are much smaller than your usual monitor, should be displaying its own Windows desktop complete with icons.
Which windows version ?
Yeah I got that.
Im not sure what computer youre talking about though.
Do you mean the one I intend on putting the little screens on or?
yes.
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Right well I dont mind what version of Windows it runs. All it has to do is display 4, 8 or 10 web pages. Maybe 11.
It very much depends on what graphics cards I end up using to do it as that will dictate what computer I use, which means I will be constrained by the physical box its in.
If I do it all on an NVS 420 then my PowerEdge T30 then it will be Windows Server 2016 because thats what its got, if I can do it with an NVS 510 then it will be on a HP Z230 which will run Windows 10.
Thats because the NVS 420 I have is full height, the NVS 510 is low profile...
Im not trying to be awkward Im only in the initial planning stages of it all.
All I do know is I am doing it all on some 24" screens at the minute and I really want to downsize the monitors to make it all manageable at least in size.
So I ended up getting a number of the converters that have an HDMI input and an RCA composite video output, powered by a MiniUSB connector on the side.
Im sure you all know the device Im talking about.
It works up to a point but it doesnt really work as I want it to.
The device itself is what is seen by Windows not the monitor, which is good in a way as I can turn off the monitors and windows still detects the device is present so doesnt turn off the output even though the screen itself is turned off.
But I was wondering if anybody knows of a device that performs the same kind of function but doesnt have the scaler built it, so it it seen by Windows as a PAL device and will only pump out a PAL signal to it.
The ones I have allow a resolution all from 800 x 600 up to 1920 x 1080 which means there is a curious problem that the image is high resolution but the screens pixel count is still PAL (Resolution 960 R,G,B x 234)
