![]() It keeps on going back to maximising on the laptop screen even when it was happily playing fullscreen on the projector. Meanwhile we started using our Sanyo projector t run the night and tried to use VLC, whit is EXTREMELY unreliable when you try to use dual screen. They seemed to be offering support but then when I tried to arrange a time for them to 'dial in' started ignoring emailed. WE did not want ongoing support just to get it working in a fit for purpose new product type of thing. We spent £350 on YouPlay and it did not work and could not get descent support from them. Maybe you looking for a black magic DecLink that allows playout to SDI source and others depending on the board. It seems on the fly resizing is fairly rare. the more I look the more YouPlay seems the only option. Its a bring your own film night so we need to be able to play a verity of formats without transcoding. I like the AJA Ki-Pro as being reliable and fairly simple to use, but there are now several other options as well. If you can get everything into the same format, though, the hardware players are better and less troublesome. One issue when outputting SDI is that the output format will be whatever format the original file was in, which means that shorts programs composed of material in different frame rates and resolutions will be glitchy unless you reformat everything into one file or multiple files with the same resolution and frame rate. I believe that mplayer has an SDI output option, too, but I never investigated that. ![]() It is also possible that the SDI card and/or drivers had issues. This was two years ago and it may have improved since then. No idea why and I didn't bother to troubleshoot it. I have used "melt" (which is part of the "MLT framework") under Linux (it might also run on other OSes), but, at least with the Blackmagic SDI card, it only properly played back material that was captured on the same system. I am currently looking at DrasticDisplay Pro.įrom: Boston, MA. Currently I have to busk levels through a (not very good) monitor speaker in projection room. Particularly like the fact you can assign volume levels to individual clips. Is a PC we use and it does not look like it supports SDI. The gotcha is that it's only available for Mac. awards shows) use it, because it's very efficient at enabling computer-based playout without any risk of projecting the desktop (the secondary, video stream output remains black when it's not playing your actual video files). The a/v guys for a lot of the private rental shows we have that involve speeches and clips (e.g. Using a laptop or a desktop with a dual monitor-equipped video card, it enables you to have a control GUI on one screen while actually playing the video out to another (like a sort of ghetto DCP server!). The entry version of PlaybackPro is around the same price. Was wondering if anyone knew of any alternative SDI playout software we should look at. This can be a real pain (when spot testing long video files) so I am thinking of getting the paid for version which is £330. We have to play it from the beginning in real time. Strangely for the bring your own film night the only problems we have had is when we copy VOBs off a DVD but now we play DVDs on our blueray player to get round this.Īnyway one of the restrictions of the free version we are using is that we cant jump back and forward within a file. Last night we did get a odd one when it was a MP4 which had a number of short films and one of them played corrupted. ![]() YouPlay generally works well, we do occupationally get files which play slightly corrupted on the projector (but look fine in the GUI). We run a bring your own film night where we just bung on whatever people bring (without testing it, its all very rock and roll). We are currently using the free version of YouPlay which is working quite well. Anyway this is a update, and request to see if there is other software I should consider. Think I asked about this before here by can find thread. My profile | my password | search | faq & rules | forum home Home Products Store Forum Warehouse Contact Us Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: SDI Playout Software
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