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post #1 of 8
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So here's what I'm trying to accomplish: I would like to clone the following setup so that my brother (who lives overseas) and I can log into our slingbox remotely and watch WMC7, while still allowing myself and anyone who is at home to watch WMC7 normally on the HDTV

Onboard Video HDMI output to Flatpanel HDTV
Discrete Video (video out) Component to Slingbox Pro HD

Hardware:
Mobo => Asus p5n7a-vm (onboard geforce 9300 w/ vga, dvi, hdmi, displayport out)
Discrete VGA => Gigabyte GV-NX86T256H (Nvidia 8600gt with dual dvi-i & component video out)
HDTV
Slingbox Pro HD

A little background:
I've had issues going dvi-hdmi to my plasma tv. For some reason my tv has compatibility issues with the 8600gt. Sometimes it works fine with it using the dual output (dvi & video out) and other times I can't even get the machine to boot. Recently the latter was occurring nonstop. Then afterwards my mobo burnt out and i opted to switch a matx board to move my system into the tv stand (which I had been meaning to do for quite a while anyways). My issue now is that I am unable to clone the onboard video and the video out from the discrete video. Is there any way to do this?

Thanks in advance!
Kelvin
post #2 of 8
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Originally Posted by kli View Post

My issue now is that I am unable to clone the onboard video and the video out from the discrete video. Is there any way to do this?

Cloning two GPUs is impossible. Clone means the same video frame buffers to two displays from a *single* video memory (= a single GPU). There is no way around.
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Originally Posted by renethx View Post

Cloning two GPUs is impossible. Clone means the same video frame buffers to two displays from a *single* video memory (= a single GPU). There is no way around.

Is there a software solution? Maybe some sort of multiple adapter manager?
post #4 of 8
AFAIK, no.
post #5 of 8
Not sure whether it will work in your case, but maxivista has a desktop cloning function. Never tried it myself, but you can download a trial version.

www.maxivista.com

Soitjes.
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Originally Posted by soitjes View Post

Not sure whether it will work in your case, but maxivista has a desktop cloning function. Never tried it myself, but you can download a trial version.

www.maxivista.com

Soitjes.

hm thanks! i'll take a look a report back.
post #7 of 8
If I recall correctly you can't watch TV in 7MC on cloned displays anyway. I haven't tried in a long time, so someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the last time I tried 7MC would throw up some copy protection error.

How about setting up a 360 as an extender with a Slingbox attached instead? Super simple to set up and comes with the benefit of independent video streams (you can watch something different on the Slingbox and main TV). Assuming you have more than one tuner of course...
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Originally Posted by nvmarino View Post

If I recall correctly you can't watch TV in 7MC on cloned displays anyway. I haven't tried in a long time, so someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the last time I tried 7MC would throw up some copy protection error.

How about setting up a 360 as an extender with a Slingbox attached instead? Super simple to set up and comes with the benefit of independent video streams (you can watch something different on the Slingbox and main TV). Assuming you have more than one tuner of course...

@ soitjes -
unfortunately the software requires multiple pcs, and does not work within a single system

@Nvmarino -
that's actually how my system was setup for a long period of time until I started having my hardware issues. I do have a 360 and have considered setting it up as an extender. the main reason i haven't yet is because i have some plugins setup (e.g. hulu desktop and boxee) that only run thru MC and not extenders. however, since it seems that at this point i'm limited on options, so that might need to be the next step. there are RGB to YPrPb converters out there but the cheapest i've found its around $70.

does anyone know how WMC7 performs over RGB? Are there issues playing bluray via 3rd party software (i use arcsoft total media theater) (also have Anydvd).
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