[AG-TECH] Osprey 440 Cards, Matrox QID Video Card, Recommended Soundcard

[Derek Piper]

	While I've not used the 4-port Osprey, I have used a Spectra8 which has 
4 bt878 chips on it. It works very well, just like 4 independent capture 
cards except it's only taking up one slot. I don't know if the Osprey 
has the same chips on it, I know the Osprey 100 we have uses the 878 so 
I could *assume* that it does, but I don't know.
	We have a Matrox QID AGP, but we run ours in 'stretched' 2x2 mode and 
have had no problems at all.

	Derek

Peter DeSantis wrote:
> Matrox QID PCI-e Video Card - 4x DVI / VGA output graphics card
> We used this in an AG, only problem we had was that we could not get it to work in the indepednent screen mode.  The AG software would leave screen corruption trails all over and eventually lock the system.
> 
> In the stretch screen mode (where you have all screens same res, and colour depth) it work fine, no problems that we could find, and good performance in my opinion.
> 
> Why it didnt work in the indepednat screen mode i dont know, my guess is the driver was not mature enough, that may have changed by now, but i could get no response from matrox (other than "we are not aware of any problems with this product").  We didnt have another mainboard to test it with, so the problems may have been compatability issues, but im leaning to the driver issue myself.  In the end we left it in the AG, and will  prob use it in others. 
> 
> Didnt know there was a 4 channel osprey, gonna check that one out myself
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
> 
>  >>  Hi all,
>  >>  
>  >>  Just wanting to know if anyone has experimented with or is currently using
>  >>  any of these two pieces of hardware under an Access Grid session.
>  >>  
>  >>  Osprey 440 - 4 Port PCI video capture card (due to be commercially release
>  >>  shortly)
>  >>  Matrox QID PCI-e Video Card - 4x DVI / VGA output graphics card
>  >>  
>  >>  Also when testing AG 2.3 with standard onboard motherboard soundcards on
>  >>  pc's, when we increased the audio quality on RAT using the Linear Codec
>  >>  up to 44khz that it would generally crash after around 5 minutes. I would
>  >>  say the obvious problem would be the onboard soundcards. Is there a
>  >>  recommended soundcard that can successfully maintain high audio streaming
>  >>  in AG 2.3? I was thinking of something like Soundblaster Live or Audigy.
>  >>  
>  >>  Thanks so much for any input or suggestions.
>  >>  
>  >>  Kind regards,
> 
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Derek Piper - dcpiper at indiana.edu - (812) 856 0111
IRI 323, School of Informatics
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana