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Using X.info to display VS4 information
¡ Important Whether or not you have opened Matrox X.info, if your VS4 card
exceeds the maximum operating temperature, you’ll receive a warning message
with further instructions as explained in “Error notification”.
Monitoring your VS4’s operating temperatures
As shown in the X.info Hardware section, the VS4 Card page displays the
current and maximum operating temperatures for your Matrox VS4 card. To
avoid damage to your Matrox VS4 card, make sure that you don’t operate your
VS4 card at or near the maximum temperature for a prolonged period of time.
You should target your VS4 card to operate at least 10°C below the maximum
operating temperature.
You should monitor the temperature of your VS4 card periodically and take
measures as needed to lower the room temperature and/or improve the ventilation
in your VS4 system. If needed, move your VS4 card to a PCIe slot in your
computer that is not too close to another card that generates heat, such as a
display card.
Selecting your primary VS4 card
If you’ve installed two VS4 cards, you can use all inputs to feed live video and
audio to Telestream Wirecast for streaming and recording (see Chapter 5, “Using
Matrox VS4 with Telestream Wirecast”). Other applications used with your VS4
hardware, such as StudioCoast vMix and other editing applications, support only
the first four inputs, the inputs of your primary card.
To select your primary VS4 card, click the card’s tab and select
Use as primary
card/device
. In order for this setting to take effect, you’ll need to close all
applications that are using your card. When you restart an application that
supports only one card, your selected primary will be used with that application.
The option to select a primary card will be available in X.info only when multiple
cards are detected. If you don’t select a primary, the first card detected in your
system will be used as your primary card.
Error notification
X.info provides temperature warnings and warnings for other possible VS4 card
problems. Once X.info has detected a hardware problem, the
Matrox X.info
Notification
dialog box will be displayed to give you details of the problem and
further instructions. You will not be able to close this dialog box until the
problem has been resolved.
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