Driving two HDMI 1080P monitors (that correctly report EDID) works flawlessly. Driving more requires the appropriate monitor/adaptor combo and more specialized cabling. Streaming 1080P full screen video to one monitor works quite well. I am happy with full screen 1080P Netflix playback. Some folks complain about tearing and dropped frames. Perhaps I am less fussy. Given the discussions, I would suspect that it would struggle to play separate full screen 1080P streams to the each of the two monitors. The comment was about multiple full screen video streams, rather than spreading one stream across multiple monitors.Here is a video of running a video split over three screens as a short test of labwc on CM4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsCVBeiiqnESorry, but don't get that comment!..
Pi 5 does 2 1080p just fine when they are mostly static (coding, net research, reference).
Otoh, just driving two monitors when the data you are displaying is less dynamic, is brilliant. I used to run with two 24" 1080P HDMI monitors. One typically had a bunch of terminal windows, editors, and the like on one and 2 browser windows up on the other with various reference data. Now have switched to 1 37" monitor which mostly provides the real estate I need (with more vertical space) and fits better on my desk setup.
Statistics: Posted by bjtheone — Thu Aug 01, 2024 7:20 pm