Hi folks......comments/thoughts/ideas please

I have a need to compare two video files taken on different dates in real
time - a before and after exercise.

I run Win 2K and have a PC with two DVD drives. The video card has only one
monitor connection and I do not want to upgrade to a dual output card or
provide an additional monitor. Running two separate windows on the main
screen will suffice for the time being.

I can copy my camera DV files across to DVDs in mpeg.

The stumbling block as far as I can see is getting two Win DVD players to
coexist together and not fall out say over keyboard control.

Failing a software solution - could any dual output card do what I want?

I could render the two files together - a picture in picture approach. The
difficulty here would be that taken on different days (and with other
variables) it would be difficult to keep the two pictures in approx sync.
Playing back independently - you do have the option to pause one stream to
bring the whole lot back into sync.

An interesting problem - what do you say?

G

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Hi folks......comments/thoughts/ideas please

I have a need to compare two video files taken on different dates in real
time - a before and after exercise.

I run Win 2K and have a PC with two DVD drives. The video card has only
one
monitor connection and I do not want to upgrade to a dual output card or
provide an additional monitor. Running two separate windows on the main
screen will suffice for the time being.

I can copy my camera DV files across to DVDs in mpeg.

The stumbling block as far as I can see is getting two Win DVD players to
coexist together and not fall out say over keyboard control.

Failing a software solution - could any dual output card do what I want?

I could render the two files together - a picture in picture approach. The
difficulty here would be that taken on different days (and with other
variables) it would be difficult to keep the two pictures in approx sync.
Playing back independently - you do have the option to pause one stream to
bring the whole lot back into sync.

An interesting problem - what do you say?

G

Use a Video editor as the analysis tool. To compare video correct aspect
ratio isn't crucial. So you could have the two videos in the editor and
compress one to half width and shift it to the left, and compress the other
to half width and shift it to the right.