Full screen Flash video split across three TVs/monitors.

[wheatln2]

Hey everyone,

I've had a look round the forums but as this is such a strange request I don't think too many people have had similar issues.

I'm doing a final year multimedia degree project. My group and I are taking a story and presenting it across three different screens. It will have some interactive elements so I think it will be necessary to use flash to dictate how the narrative progresses.

Anyway, we're going to be using the TripleHead2Go which will output a single super wide display across three monitors. We're going to play a flash movie of 2880 x 540 across three widescreens. We are hoping to use TVs to present this, though may end up using monitors. The choices will be made during the installation by pressing a dbutton on a game controllers or keyboard.

Has anyone had any experience of flash video in such large sizes? Are there better ways to embed 3 videos (or consider it as one super wide stream) and play it back with easily controlled (by keyboard or controller) elements on three widescreen displays? I'm pretty open to suggestions or advice as we have very little experience in the technical ins and outs of putting something like this together.

[redwudz]

I think the video format has little to do with the presentation. If the video card will do what you want, that seems the most important. Sorry, little experience with working with 3 screens combined. I use two monitors at work, but they use separate screens.

[wheatln2]

I think the video format has little to do with the presentation. If the video card will do what you want, that seems the most important. Sorry, little experience with working with 3 screens combined. I use two monitors at work, but they use separate screens.

Yeah, I guess so. It's just that we're filming it in HD and will be presenting it on 3 TVs, and it will be running the video off a local machine, so the way that Flash is primarily aimed at users running video off a remote server is a bit annoying. I guess we'll see how we get on with it, as it's seems to be one of the few things that will allow that interactivity and full screen video across 3 monitors/TVs.

On a side note, my understanding is that most 16:9 PAL TVs will operate well with videostreams of 720x480 from a computer, does anyone have any suggestions as to what resolution to use for the eventual Flash movie (if you consider that it needs to be split horizontally). We're shooting in HDV 1080i, but the maximum width that Flash can output is 2880px, which divided by 3 leaves us with 960, but PAL widescreen TVs show 720 (right?) pixels wide, which would leave us with a resolution of 2160x405 (16:3)? Or is my maths a little off on this.... Three widescreen TVs (16:9) max resolution when placed side by side...

Apologies for the bizarre situation...