Mods, if this is not the right spot, you'll have to forgive me, seemed to do more w/video though....
Anyway....... I need some help with this, we are setting up a church multimedia system, I'm not new to computers, going for a degree in communication systems management at ohio university, which is like computer networking, telephony, etc. But I've never done this before.
Here's the setup, I've got a computer, obviously, we built this new one especially to run this multimedia setup. The configuration is as follows, athlon 1800+, for the motherboard we have a soyo dragon kt333 ultra, 512 mb of pc 2700 ddr ram. 40 gig hard drive, 15 inch monitor, dvd drive, floppy, and for a video card we are running nvidia, it's the fx 5200 with 128 mb's of video ram, and has dual monitor support. For the multimedia program, we are going to use "easy worship" if anyone has ever used that. Dad and I still have this setup here at the house for now, because we just finished getting some things together on thursday night. Oh yea, for the projector we are using a 2500 lumen philips bsure2 projector(i think it's the bsure2).
Anyway, the video card has s-video out and all of that, we are going to buy a large tv, about 36-40 inches to use as a monitor. The plan is to put the computer in the balcony by the soundbooth. Projector will be suspended from the ceiling, and we will be shooting above the pulpit, that's where all of our images will be at. S-video will then be run back to the monitor we will be buying.
However, we set the computer up tonight, windows is on it, our media software is installed, it runs like a top. But when we plugged the monitor in, and then you have another plug in, with an adaptor for the back of the video card so you can have another video out signal, we hooked the projector up to that adapter, the projector works great, but we are getting the same signal on the wall from our projector as we are getting from the monitor. Is there a way to split it off, as in make the projector act as it's own desktop versus us being able to control, in essence, have the words up on the wall, etc without seeing all of the information that the computer operator is seeing on the screen? Or does this mean we are going to have to bite the bullet and get another video card? I know other churches have run multiple cards, like 2-3 and 4. But I thought perhaps we could get away with this setup if we had a powerful enough card to push it. Does anyone know what I can do or has anyone ever dealt with this sort of thing before? Anyone got suggestions???
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