[Luke Goddard]

You might want to try SheerVideo, for screen captures they have great compression and it’s lossless at 100% Quality so text is just as easy to read as if you were looking at the original screen.

https://www.bitjazz.com/en/products/sheervideo/

[Luke Goddard]

[auguste raffael] “Otherwise, is there a better technology? What is Apple’s Quartz Composer technology? Is this a way to sync four movies to play as one?”

It may be possible to save the movie as 4 separate 1920 x 1080 movies (H.264 if you have the processor power, if not try PhotoJPEG with quality “10”), and in QuickTime Player (needs to be the Pro version), move the movies to their required windows and use the “Play All Movies” option (I don’t have QT in front of me so I don’t know if that is the right name).

I am not sure if this works in Full Screen mode. If it doesn’t, another alternative is to compress all 4 movies into 4 High Quality MPEG2 files and use VLC (www.videolan.org) to ‘stream’ each of the movies back to the computer, and have each stream displayed on a separate monitor. Because it bypasses QuickTime, you should have enough bandwidth to do the software decompression.

Actually, try opening the 7680 x 1080 file in VLC. It may have to be converted into H.264, DivX or MPEG2 as I don’t think it can handle QuickTime movies, but it may be able to display it across the screens.

When I get home I will run some tests on a dual monitor system to see what works and I’ll get back to you.

Kind regards,
Luke Goddard

[Luke Goddard]

For just viewing MPEG2 files, try VLC (VideoLan Client), available at http://www.videolan.org

[Luke Goddard]

Hey Tom,

Here is some info that should get you started, I am assuming Win XP and Mac OS X. This process works regardless of whether you are connecting by ethernet or wireless router, or even through a crossover.

For the Mac to access files on the PC:
Make sure your PC has sharing enabled (right click on the folder and click ‘sharing…’ to get you started).
Get the ip address of the PC by going Start -> Run and typing “cmd” and typing the command “ipconfig”
On the Mac, go to the Finder and choose the menu Go -> Connect to Server
In this window, type: “smb://” and the ip address of the PC. For example, if your PC has the ip address “192.168.1.32” then the address will be “smb://192.168.1.32”. If you are going to be using this regularly, you can click the ‘plus’ icon to add it to the favorites area.
A window will pop up asking you what workgroup to connect to, a username and password. Type in “MSHOME” for the workgroup (it may come up by default), and your PC username and password in the other two fields.
After this, another window will pop up asking you to select a share mount. The default is “SharedDocs” but you can add others to this list by creating separate shared folders on the Windows machine.
After clicking OK, the folder will be mounted on the Mac desktop just as if it were an external drive. Just make sure to unmount the folder (by dragging it to the trash which will change to “eject”) before restarting the PC or disconnecting either machine from the network.

Hope this helps,
– Luke