Laptop HDMI Output

[Videonut]

I see that SE2 has the HDMI output capabilites for the Black Magic boards, but will SE2 output to a HDMI output provided on a laptop? As I understand it, most laptop HDMI outputs are tied directly to the video card.

[Shabazzy]

I've wondered this and although I'm not 100% sure, my take is that in order to use the HDMI port on the laptop, SE has to first detect it's existence.

With BlackMagic (or any other compatible device), SE will detect them because SE looks for their drivers. However with the built-in HDMI port on a laptop, I'm not sure if SE will see it

a) at all,
b) until it's connected directly to the display device or
c) only when connected to the in-port of a monitoring device which is then in turn connected to the display device.

I'd be interested in knowing this too.

Anyone?

Shabazzy

[Zane Condren]

The HDMI Out on your Laptop is not a video device like the BMD Card is. The HDMI output is simple a second output from your graphics chip.

[Scott Bates]

Like Zane said. Tried it here and the SE interface looks great on our 37" LCD TVs, but that's just what it is, another monitor output like VGA, but better. Great for watching HD DVD movies if you have a BD-ROM drive in the laptop, but not a video output.

[Liber777]

Is there something inherently slow with the way HDMI works on a laptop? I tried SE2 at work with some DSLR footage and I was able to get smooth motion on a second DVI-connected monitor. At home with HDMI out to a 32" Aquos HDTV I'm not able to play this video back smoothly.

[Liber777]

Zane, would you know the answer to my question? Is there some overhead in using an HDMI display versus a DVI one? Thanks...

[Zane Condren]

Was this the same Machine?

[Liber777]

Yes it was--however, I cannot verify this now as I'd installed SE2 on the WinXP partition, and that install has expired. I'm running it now on the Win7 x64 partition (same machine) and what I'm seeing is that I can get smooth playback with a 25% resized screen on either DVI monitor, but I cannot maintain smooth playback at fullscreen on either monitor when video is 100% or best fit.

I guess it takes more resources to play the full size video than it does to size it down for play. I've converted the DSLR footage into SpeedHQ, but these files still will not play smoothly at full res.

The laptop is an HP 8530p T9600 2.8GHz with 3GB RAM, running Windows 7 Ultimate x64.

Thanks...

[Zane Condren]

Yeah most likely your graphics chip is sharing system memory and isn't very powerful.

[Liber777]

Too bad there's not a laptop version of the Intensity card. Thanks for your help, Zane.

[Shabazzy]

Too bad there's not a laptop version of the Intensity card. Thanks for your help, Zane.

You might want to check this out.

http://www.aja.com/products/io/io-express.php

I'd been wondering if there was an Intensity card type of device for laptops too and came across the iO express. I found it quite interesting.

Might be of interest to you too.

Shabazzy