36 Chapter 2 | Installation and Setup
InfoCaster R2100 Hardware Installation Manual
Select the Video
Output Device
Select your output device from the Select Output Device drop-down list.
Depending on your system’s output card, some options in the list are not
selectable.
Set Device Output
Options
Depending on your output device you can customize your output options using
the available checkboxes.
Table 2-3. Output Devices
Device Description
Desktop Video
Window
The desktop video window displays player output in a
window on your system’s VGA monitor. This window can
be repositioned within the desktop and can be minimized
when not in use.
This option does not require any output hardware. It is not
intended for presentation and is best used for creating and
previewing new InfoCasts.
VGA Out VGA Out displays player output on one or more external
VGA monitors. See
”Configure VGA Output” on page 38
to learn how to set up single or multi head output.
TV Out TV Out displays the player output on an external NTSC or
PAL TV monitor.
Note: InfoCaster does not support TV Out output with
NVIDIA hardware.
Table 2-4: Device Output Options
Option Description
Use GPU
Acceleration
Desktop Video provides a Use GPU Acceleration
checkbox. To improve video output quality and speed,
InfoCaster can tell your video card to perform many of
the output tasks that InfoCaster would otherwise perform
itself.
Select the Use GPU Acceleration checkbox if your video
card is capable of handling advanced video output tasks.