Forum: General Discussion

I'd just wanted to show that in generall it is possible. But may need a lot of skinning/ scripting skills.

There was a thread in the General Forum as well as in the German Forum where exactly this was discussed before.
IIRC there was a picture in the general forum thread with such a custom build. Not sure if it was with VDJ though.


EDIT: There it is:
http://www.virtualdj.com/forums/197855/General_Discussion/Upgrade_your_controller_with_LCD_screens.html

the idea is great but let your custom pc do the math. i am a developer but not with skins so could not tell you whether skin in 3 pieces would work. ( it could if the main skin would be transparent , then just ad 3 layers so the end result is one skins with 3 panels, but then still you need to build in the logic to adjust them in the correct position on the monitors.


so OS level is limited, then go to the next level: application level and then graph cards come into play.

this article is a bit over the top https://www.pcworld.com/article/2923941/how-to-create-an-insane-multiple-monitor-setup-with-three-four-or-more-displays.html

i think this would apply for heavy sound workstations. if you build a custom pc with the better graph cards then maybe you can tell the graph card how to divde vdj over 3 screens .

just some thoughts


good luck

The old way of doing it (VDJ 7 and earlier) was to make your skin the width of your screen setup, so if you had three screens of 1024x768, the skin graphics would be 3072x768. Then as long as your screens were configured in your OS to be side by side, the skin would automatically load across the three screens.

I think you can still do it this way in VDJ 8 (because it has compatibility with VDJ 7 skins) but a better way now is to use popup windows for the extra screens. Then you could have a choice of running the skin normally (on one screen) or opening the extra windows and running on three.

So do I understand that correctly that you dont use a custom VDJ Skin?

Also how is the latency on the additonal screens? When I searched for this on the forums I think I your setup in an older thread, but you reported problems with the wavelines stuttering (Could be wrong tho)

PS: I'm talking about usb screens, because you can use up to six of them. This is not possible with computer screens that have VGA or HDMI or other cable connection, unless you have a few thousands Euro's to invest in equipment that can multiply your notebook (hardware)video connections :)

Oh.

I wanted to use 3 HDMI Touchscreens. So it wont work with thoose the way you have it?

Nope. You can only use 1 hdmi connection (and dvi or vga simultaneously) unless you buy very expensive hardware that can multiply hdmi outputs and recognize them as separate screens.

If you use a hdmi splitter, which does work, you would have the same image on every screen (mirroring). Your computer would only see one screen.

My USB screens are touchscreen too