Playing 4 videos to 4 screens from 1 box

[gikstar]

A client wants to install large TV screens on all four display/conference room walls and have a different videos playing on each screen, preferably using one central computer.

Does anyone have any experience setting up such a system? I've seen the Matrox PCI-e x16 C420 video card and the USB 3.0 Plugable hub that can handle the signals, and I suspect that two video cards with 2 ports each will also do the trick, but what software is used to play this many video files at one time?

Thanks for any suggestions...

 

[Pants]

As a free option, I've used VLC media player to stream over a network to one computer , but I'm not sure if software absolutely MUST be installed on the machine receiving the signal, as I haven't experienced with VLC extensively; Not sure how a TV would be able to interact with VLC server, but I know that VLC does do multiple streams.

https://wiki.videolan.org/How_to_play_multiple_instances_of_VLC/


edit: If VLC doesn't do what you need it to do, maybe find a similar free software that's compatible with TVs.

 

[gikstar]

Thank you Pants... will check that out.

 

[Markverhyden]

Apple TV is very simple but you have to buy one per display, $100 each. Work's fine in Mac OS. Did a health club with 8 TV's running from one MacMini server. Not tested it in M$ but it is supposed to work as it uses iTunes to do the heavy lifting.

 

[altrenda]

How about 4 Google Chromecasts, one on each TV. Cast each video to the proper Chromecast via wifi.
The 4 Chromecasts will cost less than 1 AppleTV. But I would think you need some processing power in the CPU/GPU and sufficient bandwidth to provide 4 separate streams without buffering.

http://allaboutchromecast.com/chrom...or-streaming-local-media-files-to-chromecast/

 

[SAG]

Thank you Pants...

If I had a nickle for every time I've thought or said that....