help A rather tricky situation with a video installation

[sanctified Veteran]

Guys, I'm in a quite dire situation here.

I have to do a video installation using a couple of old tv's. The thing is that it's not a single video output, I need to display something different in each tv, however the two displays should be in perfect sync.

Someone suggested me to use a laptop, and output to one tv using the standard vga port and to the other tv using an usb to vga plug. However as far as I know this would only produce a copy of the main laptop display and not independent displays.

Another friend suggested me to buy a couple of cheap dvd players and use both at the same time with an universal controller but Im not even sure universal controllers work that way. Can you operate two players at once?

Any ideas?

[sanctified Veteran]

Thinking about it the second idea is the worst. Even If I find an universal controller that works like that there's still the problem of perfectly synchronizing two DVDs. A lot of factors influence the spinning speed.

I think the most easy solution it's to get that usb to vga adapter, streching the monitor and editing the video source to include both videos in the same frame.

However I may still welcome suggestions.

[Edrick Smith]

So you want them both to just start at the same time? Different content though? What's your budget we do stuff like this all the time but on large installs

[+Mirumir Subscriber¹]

You just need a PC with a dual-head GPU. You can have the same Windows desktop, synced and projecting different things at the same time (or easily switchable clone-mode).

I'm not sure about the laptops available to you, but a stand-alone PC case would be the easiest and cheapest solution.

[sanctified Veteran]

Thanks guys.

I just got an usb to vga adapter and a couple of vga to rca converters. I will test the installation with these to see if I can achieve the results I desire.