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liquidthex
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Hello, this is my first post to [H], but I've been an avid reader of the forum for a while.
Today I have an issue with a very odd (details below) thing I'm trying to setup.
Basically, I have two ATI Radeon cards: An X1900 XTX, and an X1900 Crossfire edition. Linked together with the crossfire dongle and working just fine.
The Crossfire edition card does not have an S-Video port, but the regular card does.
I only use 1 monitor, however, in the ATI Catalyst Control Center I see 4 displays and a TV under disabled displays.
However, I'm under the impression that with crossfire enabled you can only use 1 display (not sure on that though).
My question is very simple: Can I use the S-Video out on the second card while still using my current monitor, and still be in Crossfire mode?
Unfortunately I do not have an S-Video cable to test this myself, or else I would be doing that.
You need not read on from there but I will explain the crazy half-baked thing I'm trying to do =) perhaps someone can suggest an easier solution.
Ok, what I'm trying to do is completely because I simply want to see if I can.. it has no real purpose.
Basically, I want to setup a live feed of my gaming =)
My plan is to purchase a cheap TV Capture card, stick it in a second computer (not the gaming computer).
I'd hook my VGA from my gaming computer into a high quality signal splitter, 1 cable would go into my monitor and the other would go to a VGA to S-Video transcoder.
This is where my question comes in, if I can just use the S-Video out on my video card then I would not need to use VGA, and I would not need to use a transcoder.
The S-Video would then hook into the TV Capture card, which could then capture a live stream, send it to my dedicated server, which would then relay to viewers.
Here is a diagram (DeadGod is my dedicated server):
Start from "Gaming Computer" and follow the flow from there.
The primary benefit of this is that the gaming computer will have no performance impact on it what so ever.
The only downside is that I'll have to use VGA instead of DVI, as a DVI splitter costs approx $200.. I'm not willing to spend that much on this.
Anyways, let me know what you think: If there's easier ways, if there's hardware I'm unaware of that would simplify this, or just answer the possibility question =)
Today I have an issue with a very odd (details below) thing I'm trying to setup.
Basically, I have two ATI Radeon cards: An X1900 XTX, and an X1900 Crossfire edition. Linked together with the crossfire dongle and working just fine.
The Crossfire edition card does not have an S-Video port, but the regular card does.
I only use 1 monitor, however, in the ATI Catalyst Control Center I see 4 displays and a TV under disabled displays.
However, I'm under the impression that with crossfire enabled you can only use 1 display (not sure on that though).
My question is very simple: Can I use the S-Video out on the second card while still using my current monitor, and still be in Crossfire mode?
Unfortunately I do not have an S-Video cable to test this myself, or else I would be doing that.
You need not read on from there but I will explain the crazy half-baked thing I'm trying to do =) perhaps someone can suggest an easier solution.
Ok, what I'm trying to do is completely because I simply want to see if I can.. it has no real purpose.
Basically, I want to setup a live feed of my gaming =)
My plan is to purchase a cheap TV Capture card, stick it in a second computer (not the gaming computer).
I'd hook my VGA from my gaming computer into a high quality signal splitter, 1 cable would go into my monitor and the other would go to a VGA to S-Video transcoder.
This is where my question comes in, if I can just use the S-Video out on my video card then I would not need to use VGA, and I would not need to use a transcoder.
The S-Video would then hook into the TV Capture card, which could then capture a live stream, send it to my dedicated server, which would then relay to viewers.
Here is a diagram (DeadGod is my dedicated server):
Start from "Gaming Computer" and follow the flow from there.
The primary benefit of this is that the gaming computer will have no performance impact on it what so ever.
The only downside is that I'll have to use VGA instead of DVI, as a DVI splitter costs approx $200.. I'm not willing to spend that much on this.
Anyways, let me know what you think: If there's easier ways, if there's hardware I'm unaware of that would simplify this, or just answer the possibility question =)