Allowing Application Control Of The Sdi Output - Nvidia Quadro FX 4800 User Manual

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Windows–Using the Graphics to SDI Control Panel

Allowing Application Control of the SDI Output

The SDI application programming interface allows OpenGL applications to have full and
exclusive control of the SDI output.
Refer to the document
instructions on using the APIs.
To allow applications to control the SDI output ‐
Step 1: Turn off NVIDIA Control Panel SDI output control.
1 From the NVIDIA Control Panel navigation tree pane, under Workstation, click Send
graphics to SDI output.
2 If you are using more than one NVIDIA Quadro FX SDI card, under Select a display to
configure SDI output, click the display icon corresponding to the display you want to
configure.
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3 Under Send SDI output using, select Do not send SDI output.
Step 2: Close the NVIDIA Control Panel.
Step 3: Start the application.
Once the application is running and the SDI output is under application control, you can
view the SDI settings and check the status using the Send Graphics to SDI Output page.
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Programming the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800/5800 SDI
This option does not appear if your system contains only one NVIDIA Quadro FX
SDI card.
If this option does not appear and your system does contain more than one NVIDIA
Quadro FX SDI card, see "Enabling Multiple SDI Cards" on page
on enabling the cards.
Quadro FX 4800/5800 and Quadro CX SDI User's Guide– Version 1.0
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