Summary of Contents for SMART-AVI Mosaic
- Page 1 Mosaic Manual SmartAVI 3111 Winona Ave., Suite 101 Burbank, California 91504 Tel: (818) 565-0011 • Fax: (818) 565-0020 • Email: info@smartavi.com...
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Enabled outputs .................. 11 How To Connect Video Inputs ............13 Connection Table ................14 How To Get The Best Quality Video Windows From the Mosaic.... 16 Using more than 1 Mosaic Card............19 Further Improvements ..............21 Recommended products for this example: ........22 Software: .................. -
Page 4: Introduction
Introduction The Mosaic is a PCI plug-in card which has been designed to operate in conjunction with the Horizon 4VW-DIG and the iH4-DIG graphics card. The Mosaic card, when combined with the Horizon 4VW- DIG and iH4, provides up to 9 separate video overlay windows. -
Page 5: Specification
Specification Card Type PCI 2.2 compliant adapter Card Size 100 x 260 (mm) Max Number of Video Windows Supported Video Formats PAL, NTSC, SECAM, S-Video Power consumption 12 watts Power Requirements +5V at 2.2Amps, +12V at 100mA Inputs per overlay window 2 x Composite or 1 x Composite and 1 x S-Video Max capture resolution per... -
Page 6: Unpacking
We recommend that you do not discard the packing box until you are completely satisfied with the Mosaic, and it is fully installed and working correctly. We also recommend that you make note of the serial number of the card in a prominent place before you plug the card into the computer. -
Page 7: Installing The Mosaic Card
Mosaic card is installed. Carefully remove the cover from your PC. • Locate an available PCI slot to install your Mosaic card preferably next to your Horizon 4VW-DIG or iH4-DIG. You may need to remove the expansion slot cover and screw, please retain these for future use. -
Page 8: Installing The Mosaic With The Horizon And Ih Card
• Once the Mosaic is installed it can be connected to the Horizon 4VW-DIG or iH4-DIG cards in the system. Connect the 2 x 40 way ribbon cables from the Mosaic card to the Horizon 4VW-DIG or iH4-DIG cards. The Mosaic card should be connected to one end of the ribbon cable. - Page 9 Mosaic card. The header J5 located on the Mosaic card is for factory use only. Do not connect to this header. There are numerous ways in which the Mosaic Card can be connected to the graphics card, the basic rules are: •...
- Page 10 The illustrations on the next page demonstrate the simple and most common arrangements made with the Mosaic. There are many variations with many options to display the Mosaic video windows. The maximum possible would be 8 graphics cards and 32 Mosaic cards, this would provide a total of 288 Mosaic video windows and 32 displays.
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Page 11: Enabled Outputs
Mosaic video windows will not be displayed. If the system has 4 Mosaic cards connected to 4 graphics cards only one output from each Mosaic card header can be connected. The illustration... - Page 12 Connected this way the outputs from each Mosaic card are as follows: • Mosaic Card 1 - Output 1 • Mosaic Card 2 - Output 2 • Mosaic Card 3 - Output 3 • Mosaic Card 4 - Output 4...
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Page 13: How To Connect Video Inputs
Luma) on the top splitter cable. The following table describes how to connect the video inputs to the specific Mosaic video windows and which jumper link on the Mosaic card provides the 75ohm termination for each input. The links should be fitted... -
Page 14: Connection Table
Connection Table Mosaic Terminating Link Input Cable BNC N0 Window (75 ohm) Composite A/Luma LK 1 Chroma LK 2 Composite B Bottom LK 17 Composite A/Luma LK 3 Chroma LK 4 Composite B Bottom LK 18 Composite A/Luma LK 5... - Page 15 When installing multiple Mosaic cards in your machine it is important that the jumper links LK28, LK29, LK30 and LK31 located on the Mosaic cards are configured correctly for the number of Mosaic cards in use. The following table shows how to configure the jumper settings for...
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Page 16: How To Get The Best Quality Video Windows From The Mosaic
Example 1 Example 2 In this example a 4th Mosaic window is now opened on a 2 x 2 wall. The new window is large and touches the same screen as the 3 small windows. This creates poor quality overlays. - Page 17 3 small Mosaic windows. The illustration below shows that by repositioning the large yellow window Mosaic is allowed to use 2 overlay outputs and maximise the quality of the 3 small windows and maximises a second overlay for the large...
- Page 18 Example 3 (4 x 3 wall with 1 Mosaic card and 9 windows) Poor layout - Only 1 overlay can be used because the large window touches all screens By repositioning the large window so that it touches fewer screens, Mosaic can allocate more overlays and quality will improve.
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Page 19: Using More Than 1 Mosaic Card
The resolution of the overlay is always 768 x 567 so if the Mosaic window is tiny in proportion to the overlay, the resolution of the Mosaic window will be small and of low quality. - Page 20 Now each Mosaic card will generate a single overlay containing all the windows. Quality is still bad because the large windows touch the top row of screens. This stops the Mosaic cards from being able to use their second overlay.
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Page 21: Further Improvements
Now each Mosaic card will generate a single overlay containing all the windows. Quality is still bad because the large windows touch the top row of screens. This stops the Mosaic cards from being able to use their second overlay... -
Page 22: Recommended Products For This Example
• Connect up to 32 video sources to the inputs of the VisionSwitch32 card. • Connect outputs 1 to 9 to the 9 inputs of Mosaic card A. • Connect outputs 10 to 18 to the 9 inputs of Mosaic card B. -
Page 23: Software Installation
• The CD supplied with the Mosaic Card. From The CD Insert the CD into your CD ROM drive, the CD will autorun, select install Mosaic driver. Or from either the Run menu option or using Explore to browse the CD, locate the setup program, e.g. d:/Mosaic/setup.exe. -
Page 24: Accessories
Accessories Mosaic Buffer Module (MBM) The Mosaic Buffer Module (MBM) is a small PCB that is attached to the J3, J7 and J8 headers on the iH4-DIG enabling up to 8 iH4 cards to be attached to your Mosaic cards. - Page 25 MBM-H4 - Connects up to 4 Mosaic cards to up to 8 iH4-DIG cards. Below is an illustration showing how to connect 2 Mosaic cards to 6 iH4-DIG cards using the MBM-H2.
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Page 26: Smartavi
SmartAVI SmartAVI has a long and very successful history in the computer graphics industry. SmartAVI has been designing and supplying high performance, high quality graphics display systems to the worlds largest and most demanding companies and institutions. SmartAVI was one of the founding companies of multi screen Windows acceleration using single and multi board solutions. - Page 27 use made of the information supplied. All registered trademarks used within this documentation are acknowledged by SmartAVI. © SmartAVI, 2006 SmartAVI 3111 Winona Ave., Suite 101 Burbank, California 91504 Tel: (818) 565-0011 Fax: (818) 565-0020 Email: info@smartavi.com URL: http://smartavi.com...
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Page 28: Index
11 Connect Video Inputs, 11 Connection Table, 11 Copyright Statement, 21 Email, 21 Enabled output, 10 Enabled outputs, 10 French Office, 22 German Office, 22 headers, 7 Horizon 4VW-DIG, 7 iH4-DIG, 7 Installing the Mosaic Card, 6... - Page 29 5 Power consumption, 4 Power Requirements, 4 Recommended products, 19 Supported Video Formats, 4 Technical Support, 21 Headquarters, 21 Using The Mosaic, 10 video window, 8 VisionSwitch32-SA connection, 19 Wall Control, 3 Wall Control application, 19 Wall Control Manual, 10...
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