Re: Need Advice on MPEG-2 Decoder Card

Ah Mac...yes, Renewed Vision would be your best bet.

BUT...I'm not sure if Renewed Vison would allow the Master to also be the playback presenter. You may need two licences there instead of one as in Wings Platinum, i.e. Master AND SLAVE licences are necessary...implying also two Macs with the Slave being a Mac Mini as a minimum. Best to check.

In the case of the PC-based Wings, you only need one, since the Master can also be used as Slave in a playback situation. Also, a possibly useful feature of Wings for novice operators is that the 'programmer' (you??) can use the Control Panel feature (one page will do - available with one of the paid versions) to program triggers into on-screen buttons, i.e. the novice operator does not see the Timeline and other confusing things. He sees only a Control Panel with buttons to 'Play Video X', 'Stop Video X', Play Video Y', 'Stop Video Y', Pause, etc.

For Mac-based freeware, check out Multiscreener from zachpoff.com plus a few more links from there, eg. Isadora, Max/MSP Jitter. But I think these others are paid-ware.

If you do decide to go with a Windows software, just ensure that it is XP (Home or Pro makes no difference to your presentation), and that it is clean, i.e. little other applications (esp. 3rd party games), and most importantly, NO internet access for that machine. Only then can you be assured of a 101% stable machine for presentation purposes.

Thomas Leong