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API Control
SDI Application Programming Overview
Application programming of the NVIDIA Quadro FX SDI consists of two principle parts–
device control and data transfer.
• Device control handles the hardware configuration as well as the starting and stopping
of data transfers.
This chapter covers the APIs related to data control.
• Data transfer is the sequence of operations that send graphics data to the video device
for output.
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Device control is handled by the NvGvo API, described in this chapter.
Data transfer operations are performed by the OpenGL extension
WGL_NV_video_out.
Device control is handled by the NV‐CONTROL X extension, described in this
chapter.
Data transfer operations are performed by the OpenGL extension
GLX_NV_video_output.
Quadro FX 4800/5800 and Quadro CX SDI User's Guide– Version 1.0
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