KeyEventEmulator

Hi All,

I'm building an information kiosk and I need to pipe in video feeds from a few different sources and control the switching of them via QC. I've got a single source of video feeding in fine but the blackmagic intensity I'm using to do the capture is pretty finicky about resolutions and frame rates.

I'd like to add a kvm into the mix and have QC control the switching via the serial port and I'm just wondering if anyone has had any experience with this before?

My concerns are:

1) Do I need something like EDID Management (which makes things much more expensive) to make sure the input computers are always outputting at the right resolution for the blackmagic? I'm worried that when I switch displays the input computer will loose display sync and start outputting at a different resolution and I won't see anything on the blackmagic when I switch back.

Read more about EDID here - http://www.aten.com/data/whitepaper/VDS_White_Paper_100312.pdf

2) Kineme's serial controller won't work with a specific KVM

Some different KVM options

1) Name: Gefen 4x1 Switcher for HDMI 1.3 Link: http://www.gefen.com/kvm/dproduct.jsp?prod_id=9309 Price: $199 Pros: Cheap, supports serial control Cons: Doesn't Doesn't have physical buttons (although it does have an ir remote), Doesn't support usb switching (this isn't needed but would be nice)

2) Name: Gefen 4x1 DVI KVM Switcher Link: http://www.gefen.com/kvm/dproduct.jsp?prod_id=8786 Price: $899 Pros: supports serial control, supports EDID Cons: Expensive

3) Name: Rose Vista AV 4 port Link: http://rose.com/htm/vistaav.htm Price: $695 Pros: Cons: Not sure if it supports EDID

4) Name: Any gear from ATEN Link: http://www.aten.com Price: Pros: Supports EDID (video datasync) Cons: No Serial control although they mention being able to switch via hotkeys - it requires the scroll lock though which I couldn't get working via lookitscook's key event emulator patch (http://kineme.net/forum/DevelopingCompositions/EmulatingKeyboardApplescr...)

Any thoughts/lessons learned would be much appreciated - Cheers James

P.S - my other option is to try and get an IR emitter hooked up to QC - thoughts?