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Media Presentation Software with Multi-monitor support

by mymailplease Jan 30, 2011 11:20PM PST

Hi!

I am trying to find some software that could control 5 monitors independently at once, so that I can use it for multimedia presentation at my church. I now some people that use a program called "Media Shout," but as far as I know, it only allows dual monitor support. I am really looking for something that will support at least 5 individual monitors in such a way that they could display different things to each monitor and control each monitor's display independently. Does anyone have any idea what software I could use to do this? Thanks!

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We cheated.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jan 31, 2011 3:05AM PST

We had to do that for a trade show and cheated. We took many netbooks and had one per display. REMEMBER we had 5 days to get this working so no time to be fancy.

Each machine driving the display was easy. Now we installed all on a LAN and installed a small in house written app that would read a command file and then do what was in that.

So 5 days, 2 fair to good programmers and we went to the show.
Bob

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multiple monitor software
by Yamato_Cinko Feb 1, 2011 6:11PM PST
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by mymailplease Feb 2, 2011 3:40AM PST

@R.Proffitt: That's pretty awesome! Unfortuantely, I don't have any programming experience, and I only have one computer to do all of my video tasks on. Do you know of any software that would work kind of like "Power Point," but allow you to control 5 screens independently of each other?

@Yamata_Cinko: I looked at the presented software, and they are all very nice, but I am really looking for more of a media presentation software... Do you know of any kind of media presentation software like the one I described above, that would let me control 5 monitors at one time?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!

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Software for Multiple Monitor Presentations
by Glaucus25 Nov 5, 2011 2:10AM PDT

Hello,

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screens
by Axachi Nov 10, 2011 11:59PM PST

Hi I found this but mamby you found somthing better?

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VGA Splitter Cable
by Glaucus25 Nov 11, 2011 1:09AM PST

I only want one extra monitor, laptop screen and two monitors. There is a VGA splitter cable. But the signal will be split between two monitors.

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