Display a mirror image coming from a video camera and using 2 monitors to work mulitple tasks
These are 2 distinctly different questions.
1. Is there an easy way to mirror the image that feeds a display monitor. Here is a quick overview. For teaching golf, I would like to have a video camera and feed that comes thru a laptop and then feeds to a monitor. However, the display that the student is viewing will be showing the opposite of what he/she should be seeing. The monitor image will appear as if the student were looking into a mirror. I would rather the student see his body positions etc. as if he were looking at himself from the front. Therefore, the need to mirror the image being displayed. I don't know if this is a software, driver or hardware problem.
2. Is it possible to attach a second monitor to a laptop (which already has an LCD screen) so that both monitors can be controlled by the laptop (XP Home). Examople, I would like for one monitor to be used for Internet web surfing and the other monitor to be available for WORD. I think this is possible but I do not know what the hardware/software requirements are. Your help is appreciated.
1. Is there an easy way to mirror the image that feeds a display monitor. Here is a quick overview. For teaching golf, I would like to have a video camera and feed that comes thru a laptop and then feeds to a monitor. However, the display that the student is viewing will be showing the opposite of what he/she should be seeing. The monitor image will appear as if the student were looking into a mirror. I would rather the student see his body positions etc. as if he were looking at himself from the front. Therefore, the need to mirror the image being displayed. I don't know if this is a software, driver or hardware problem.
2. Is it possible to attach a second monitor to a laptop (which already has an LCD screen) so that both monitors can be controlled by the laptop (XP Home). Examople, I would like for one monitor to be used for Internet web surfing and the other monitor to be available for WORD. I think this is possible but I do not know what the hardware/software requirements are. Your help is appreciated.
1) you vid may be able to be mirrored, i would check in the display card properties and see if there is a mirror option, a system here has one but it is greyed out so im guessing it is a hardware limitation on that sys.
2) there is the ability to share the system in a desktop as seen here
http://www.aplycon.com/products.asp?view=1
but i havnt seen any for portable use
i dont really reccomend the above though as it isnt very cost effective
waffle
2) there is the ability to share the system in a desktop as seen here
http://www.aplycon.com/products.asp?view=1
but i havnt seen any for portable use
i dont really reccomend the above though as it isnt very cost effective
waffle
1) I would bet that video processing software can take your movie and flip it as part of a special effect. If you want to do it live, you could use a digital projector to reverse an image left/right or top/down (mine has it).
2) This is called desktop spanning. Laptops have a vga port for attaching an external monitor, which can be anything from a CRT to an LCD display to a projector. The video settings should allow cloning the primary image or extending the desktop.
2) This is called desktop spanning. Laptops have a vga port for attaching an external monitor, which can be anything from a CRT to an LCD display to a projector. The video settings should allow cloning the primary image or extending the desktop.
>> extending the desktop
I would be interested in seeing that part ...
I would be interested in seeing that part ...
I'll try this with my laptop tonight, because I would like to be sure, too (that's why I said "should allow").
I stand corrected - it seems laptops do not have desktop spanning. I tried it with an IBM A21e with Win98 and an IBM T23 with Win2K; neither one could do anything other than clone the display or switch between them. The more flexible settings in desktops is not even available.
my laptop allows it.
it is a cybercom M25** i think, with a GeForce4 MX440 graphics card.
i was doing this last night
it is a cybercom M25** i think, with a GeForce4 MX440 graphics card.
i was doing this last night
Yep, the MX440 does that! You're one lucky duck :-)
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1) If your imaging software doen't upport it, no.
2) You need a second graphic card in your PC, which is very unlikely to be possible on a laptop.
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