How do you watch G-Force on your TV?

FrankN · Post by **FrankN** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 12:18 pm

Hey guys,

I frequently get this question from users. Once upon a time, you would tell someone to get an S-Video cable, and that would be that. Now, there are so many different ways to connect your computer to your TV. So, how do YOU do it? How reliable is your method? Would you recommend it to others?

jerohm · Post by **jerohm** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 12:43 pm

IOGear GWHDMS52* (I own - 100ft max) or GWHDMS52MB (new - 200ft max) uncompressed wireless HDMI (expensive)
- or -
RedMere (technology) HDMI cable >=25ft (I own 40ft - Monoprice - reasonable, kindof)
Both solutions work great...

Intel WiDi should work, but there is a delay and compression (and also needs an adapter).

Smart TVs can connect using WiFi Direct( if your PC supports it)... but ONLY for video files, and NOT player visualizations(, and there is compression involved). Apples may have better options.

I AM wondering what the implications are if 4K Televisions take off

?

* there is a cheaper GW3DKIT, that is NOT also a switch

juxtiphi · Post by **juxtiphi** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 5:03 pm

I connect my comp to my TV via HDMI cable. The picture isnt quite as good as with my monitor propper but its still very very nice.

FrankN · Post by **FrankN** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 5:47 pm

Thanks, guys! Smart TVs are interesting, but wouldn't their ability to use WiFi Direct vary from brand to brand?

It seems like HDMI cables are the way to go these days.

Does anyone have experience using AirPlay? Are there any other options from Apple?

Post by **BTT** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 9:35 pm

Hello All

I have a Samsung LED. Have been told a dongle is available from Samsung which auto detects the router, enter security code, and turn on PC. It can also be connected with HDMI cables.

Regards BTT

Linvincible · Post by **Linvincible** » Fri Jan 31, 2014 11:06 am

I find it sad to have to turn a PC on just for a visualization
I would love to see it running on a small cheap platform like raspberry pi...

jerohm · Post by **jerohm** » Fri Jan 31, 2014 11:21 am

GF (Flowfields in particular) requires a great amount of CPU resources. I have often thought, that a DVD player (used to play CDs) board would be great, but I am afraid it would be cost prohibitive at this time.

Gigabyte has some interesting solutions (i.e. BRIX), but they ain't cheap.

DireWolf · Post by **DireWolf** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 5:13 am

All videocards even on board ones come with a HDMI these days and all modern TV's have a HDMI in. So quite simply I connect one of them to my TV.

I got a monitor and a TV hooked to mine, I mainly use J.River but this works with winamp or whatever, I put the visualization window on a the second extended screen so I still can do what I want on my monitor.

Don't think there is a better more reliable way then this as its perfect.

sharok · Post by **sharok** » Sun Mar 02, 2014 3:06 am

I've a dedicated laptop for my music (music server) with a 1080p (16x9) display. I also use winamp.
I've a Nyrius ARIES Pro wireless HDMI which sends audio (Winamp) as PCM and video (1080p, in this case Aeon and Gforce) to my 3808 Denon AVR with no delays that I can tell. Excellent audio and video.
The Denon upsamples the .wav to 24bit (AL24)and sends to sepakers/sub, and sends the video to TV.

elf · Post by **elf** » Fri Apr 18, 2014 1:53 am

Hi everyone, first post here. I've had my eye on these visualizers a long time but really never justified them to myself until recently when I put together my new mini home theater setup. I purchased all 4 platinum products for this, and yes it works very reliably, and its just plain beautiful. I'll probably put them on my laptop or desktop too, but this was the real reason I purchased them. I've waited a long time for this.

They run under iTunes on a new mac mini (8gb i7 with SSD), hooked via hdmi to Onkyo TX-NR626 Receiver, through to an 80" Vizio display (M801i-A3). Sound by Klipsch.

Add to that the di.fm chillout channel... mmmmmm

Now if I could only figure a way to airplay with the visualizers to allow others to add random tunes on a whim... (already doing airplay with AirServer...) Why isn't it possible to tap into the sound streams the way that, for example, Airfoil does?

I'm looking forward to this fun looking community =)

juxtiphi · Post by **juxtiphi** » Fri Apr 18, 2014 7:17 am

elf wrote:Hi everyone, first post here. I've had my eye on these visualizers a long time but really never justified them to myself until recently when I put together my new mini home theater setup. I purchased all 4 platinum products for this, and yes it works very reliably, and its just plain beautiful. I'll probably put them on my laptop or desktop too, but this was the real reason I purchased them. I've waited a long time for this.

They run under iTunes on a new mac mini (8gb i7 with SSD), hooked via hdmi to Onkyo TX-NR626 Receiver, through to an 80" Vizio display (M801i-A3). Sound by Klipsch.

Add to that the di.fm chillout channel... mmmmmm

Now if I could only figure a way to airplay with the visualizers to allow others to add random tunes on a whim... (already doing airplay with AirServer...) Why isn't it possible to tap into the sound streams the way that, for example, Airfoil does?

I'm looking forward to this fun looking community =)

Hello elf

Welcome to the wonderful world of G-force and Soundspectrum Visualizers. Nice to have you aboard!

Post by **BTT** » Sat Apr 19, 2014 7:55 pm

Hello elf

Welcome aboard, hope you have many hours of pure pleasure with all SoundSpectrum programs. With your setup you have managed to make me very jealous.

elf · Post by **elf** » Sun Apr 20, 2014 5:13 am

Why thank you! Actually I think I've even made myself a little bit jealous over this setup. It has been probably 15 years since I upgraded last. I honestly never really imagined having something like this. I must say that the combination of the video and sound equipment with these visualizers quite blow me away.
So you know what I mean and where I'm coming from (and speaking of older ways to set things up), before any of this existed.. early 1990s I think, I made my own visualizer. Possibly(?) one of the first around. I took a line-out feed from my stereo (from whatever music I was playing - these were of course pre-mp3 days), into a DSS 8-bit sampler hooked up to a commodore amiga computer running at a whole 7MHz (yes, that really is 0.007 Ghz), running custom code I wrote. Obviously at 7MHz I wasn't going to do any real-time FFTs on the sound, but I made my own cheating algorithms to detect various levels of bass and treble, enough to catch and pulse colors to the beat and to provide some pretty waveforms and happy trails in real-time, to my small 21" or so TV.

so yes, As you might imagine, I have waited a long time for this day =)
With this setup now, and the sound spectrum products... I am very happy indeed. Hats off to you guys and whoever else behind the scenes to make all this modern magic happen!

Post by **BTT** » Sun Apr 20, 2014 12:19 pm

Hello elf

I remember creating a very basic, and I mean basic sound to vision program in the days of the Atari 800XL. Circles, boxes, and triangles were the only available shapes plus you only had four colors. The sound source was putting a music cassette into the Atari 1010 tape player. Oh, those were the days. Do you remember a guy called Jeff Minter of Llamasoft?

elf · Post by **elf** » Sun Apr 20, 2014 12:50 pm

I'm afraid the name itself doesn't ring a bell, but Llamasoft sounds very familiar for some reason (must have made something i liked?) ... And the 800 makes me think of Star Raiders.. I never got to do any Atari programming though. My experience before Amiga was with PET, TRS-80, Apple, and IBM PC