Newbie Question

[dunny]

I wonder whether you fine folks could help.

I want to display 12 monitors each showing a different presentation stored on a central server. I would prefer control of the display(s) from the server but if I have to I could control it from each display monitor. I would prefer to use an LCD monitor as opposed to a TV.

I was wondering whether I could network 12 MediaMVP devices and connect the output of each device to each individual monitor.

Would this work or is there a better way?

One thing that might work, if there is such a thing, would be a small webserver (referenceable by IP address)device with a VGA output and a small amount of local storage. Anyone know of such a device?

Thanks

D

[tipstir]

I wonder whether you fine folks could help.

I want to display 12 monitors each showing a different presentation stored on a central server. I would prefer control of the display(s) from the server but if I have to I could control it from each display monitor. I would prefer to use an LCD monitor as opposed to a TV.

I was wondering whether I could network 12 MediaMVP devices and connect the output of each device to each individual monitor.

Would this work or is there a better way?

One thing that might work, if there is such a thing, would be a small webserver (referenceable by IP address)device with a VGA output and a small amount of local storage. Anyone know of such a device?

Thanks

D

12 networked MVP
4 wireless network MVP

Yeah with the LCD/SDTV or HDTV will work.

[dunny]

Tipstir,

Could you answer a couple more questions please?

Why would I need the 4 wireles MVP's?

On the LCD/SDTV what input connection would be used?

Ideally, I would be looking for monitors about the size of a laptop running in portrait mode, kind of like a digital photo frame on its side. Any suggestions on the best value monitor for this type of thing?

Regards

D

[tipstir]

Tipstir,

Could you answer a couple more questions please?

Why would I need the 4 wireles MVP's?

On the LCD/SDTV what input connection would be used?

Ideally, I would be looking for monitors about the size of a laptop running in portrait mode, kind of like a digital photo frame on its side. Any suggestions on the best value monitor for this type of thing?

Regards

D

No I was just letting you know how many you could have wireless on a network. I think it max out at 4.

Regular LCD Monitor would have to have S-Video so you would need SD/LCD TV. I don't know which way you want to go with this to make it easy on your.

You have one server running the MediaMVP Server that will have all your media. If you have media on several different devices on network you can use those also. You're not limited either. There is internet radio that uses ShoutCast also that's very easy to setup. If you need to setup audio jukebox using playlist that's easy also. MVP will use MusicMatches Playlist and a couple of other formats too.

S-video is the best for viewing
Audio is either analog RCA white/left red/right or Digital Audio Coax
10/100 LAN

Can be made wireless using a WDS hopper or using a wireless laptop with wired 10/100 on board nic which need a crossover cable and change the IP to static other than your network IPs and default gateway would be the static IP for that wired nic. DNS Server would be your router IP. I had main Media server running my main HTPC Windows Server 2003 and the other is on Windows XP Pro wireless with wired connection both used at the sametime.

I had to go this route because my WDS hopper is not able to keep open session for MVP, don't know what happen. It will still provide me WDS hopper sessions to any wired PC though. The WDS hopper is a wireless drop connection where it's stand alone bridge that uses only whe wireless signal 100%, no LAN cable is connected to it from any switches or router. When you connect your wired device to it, on your device it wll show 100mbps there are now ones that can give you up to 1000mpbs 1gb about roughly 4 wired network devices can be made wireless on these WDS.

Dlink DAP-1522/1555, Buffalo Ethernet Converter, Cisco has them also.

[emveepee]

Would this work or is there a better way?

One thing that might work, if there is such a thing, would be a small webserver (referenceable by IP address)device with a VGA output and a small amount of local storage. Anyone know of such a device?



Could you elaborate a bit on the media in your presentation and what you really want to accomplish? The mvpmc software does allow you to control audio or video play from an internal web server on the MVP reading a/v from a share or another http server. It could load local data too but there isn't much room on the ram disk.

Martin

[tipstir]

You needs some of these www.axiontv.com

http://www.axiontv.com/proimages/AXN-6079_combo_L.jpg

8" 4:3 LCD TV/Monitor
http://www.axiontv.com/proimages/axn7080_m.jpg

http://www.axiontv.com/proimages/AXN7080b_m.jpg

I you can pretty much get in about anywhere as it is sold under different names.

Can pickup cheap 13" LCD/SD/HD for $130 bucks if you know where to shop.

[dunny]

Could you elaborate a bit on the media in your presentation and what you really want to accomplish? The mvpmc software does allow you to control audio or video play from an internal web server on the MVP reading a/v from a share or another http server. It could load local data too but there isn't much room on the ram disk.

Martin


Ideally I would like to build an array of 12 monitors (3 x 4) all in portrait mode. Each monitor would show property details for property to rent and would have around 3-6 images per property that would roll around every minute or so.

This would save me having to continuously update the paper details I currently have. There are offerings on the market that can already do this but I think they are far too expensive.

If I could also have server control over what each device shows I could update the window from the back office. I could also update the window based on time of day , day of week etc (using some sort of scheduling capability). This would be quite easy of there was a published API I could use.

D

[emveepee]

I can't remember if the Hauppauge software or the mvpmc slide show loop or not but it sounds like what you want could be possible. I don't see any reason or advantage to an http server.

If I was doing this I'd ignore the MVP and just buy one of those cheap small photo fram viewers that plays from SD card assuming that I could find one that loops.

Martin

[dunny]

I can't remember if the Hauppauge software or the mvpmc slide show loop or not but it sounds like what you want could be possible. I don't see any reason or advantage to an http server.

If I was doing this I'd ignore the MVP and just buy one of those cheap small photo fram viewers that plays from SD card assuming that I could find one that loops.

Martin

You can find one that loops without too much of a problem. I havent seen one that handles portrait mode very well though. Also the overhead of going to the unit, taking out its SD card, loading that into another machine, downloading the photos, and then taking it back to the frame is then similar to what I do now. OK it will save on paper but it wont save much if anything on time. Also no scheduling opportunity, no opportunity to vary the display without a lot of hassle. I agree it would be doable this way, and cheaper, but not as effective or slick.

A small http server with a VGA output (assuming the hardware was small enough) would be ideal. Of course I would need 1 per monitor, all with their own IP address on the network. I could then quite easily write a program that would push up content to each of the servers. Also I could use Cat 5 to carry the signal.

Web enable monitors are available (a monitor with an IP address) but they are expensive.

Is there an API for MVP?

D

[emveepee]

mvpmc is a full linux kernel and monster application running on the MVP so it can be programmed in C to do pretty much anything you want.

Martin