Thread: Is it easy to run a lilliput and TFT from same computer?

vga splitter?

He wants to display different things on the two monitors though, so a VGA splitter wouldn't work.
You'd have to have either a dual-monitor capable video card, or two separate video cards to do that.

Originally Posted by no1knows

even with those 2 its going to be tricky. Id say get a low end epia boad for your dash display just to tie in with OBD2 and a more powerful one for yr 15" screen. It aint easy to output two different screens from one PC.

Its not too hard at all, with my nvidia mx 440 I can display a movie on a TV and do normal stuff on the main screen (even control the movie on the TV) however you connot use windows media player, as clicking the mouse would take it out of fullscreen mode. With the new graffics cards comming with two DVI ports or One DVI and one VGA which both are capable of using two monitors, some even three with an added s-video (but im not sure if one is shared?) So software will probably start comming out making it alot easier to use multiple screens.

The only problem is mini-itx boards only have a single PCI port, in the future, hopefully, this will become a 16x PCI Express slot however most people have epias and they only have 1 PCI slot so finding such cards is harder.

I haven't had any trouble with 4 monitors and 1 TV, all being run from one computer.

I used a FX5900SE in the AGP slot (2 monitors). Then I added a GF4MX440 (these are both nVidia cards if you don't know) to run two more monitors.

Plus I have a Hauppauge PVR-350 (PCI video capture card) that has a hardware MPEG-2 decoder, so I can play MPEG-2 files that are stored on my HD, on my TV, while using nearly no CPU resources.

Originally Posted by eCar™

I haven't had any trouble with 4 monitors and 1 TV, all being run from one computer.

I used a FX5900SE in the AGP slot (2 monitors). Then I added a GF4MX440 (these are both nVidia cards if you don't know) to run two more monitors.

Plus I have a Hauppauge PVR-350 (PCI video capture card) that has a hardware MPEG-2 decoder, so I can play MPEG-2 files that are stored on my HD, on my TV, while using nearly no CPU resources.

Are you able to see different things on different screens? For example, I would like to have a lilliput on the drivers side for gps, and be able to have the passenger watch a movie on another screen, running from the same comp. Are you able to do this with your setup? Any more details on it would be awesome

Yes. You can drag windows around, from monitor to monitor, like it's one big desktop.

The TV is not like the desktop, because it only gets a signal fro the capture card. You could use the TV out on one of the vid cards, but you have to lose a monitor (each card does two outputs only).

I have not had any problem getting my nVidia cards to play nice with each other. You would probably not want to mix manufacturers here though. I have even heard some say that there is big problems trying to get two ATI cards running on the same PC. Stick with nVidia for the least trouble, IMHO.

If you use a dual-head card (two outputs on the same card), from nVidia, ATI, or Matrox, you should not have any trouble getting two monitors going. My experience is only with nVidia, though.

Here's a pic for you. Here there are only 3 monitors and a TV hooked up. Plus 2 more monitors that are on another PC.

I dont see MP3Car.com on any monitor...