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: A network based sync-starter for multi-channel HD Video from the tradition of Montevideo / Time Based Arts

Since 2005 we release and maintain the free and open source software that we use to distribute multi-channel video artworks. More information on our R&D department. The digital video syncstarter software is developed and employed by NIMk to provide synced playback of multiple videos on multiple screens. In the video art field there are many artworks requiring the real-time synced playback of audio/video: HDSync provides such a functionality for HD decoders, to sync HD video playback on multiple devices.

HDSync is been developed in-house at NIMk on a specific hardware configuration: WD HD Live players running B-Rad’s WDLXTV firmware, something artists themselves can afford for approx 100EUR on the
consumer market.

Development in Progress

This release can synchronise the playback of multiple channels (virtually unlimited) on the same local network: hdsync can automatically handshake and start playing in sync, restoring the sync at every loop. Empirical tests show an error margin of 10-15 frames, with further development we aim to achieve frame exact sync.

Support and Warranty

The purpose of this release is to make the project open source to allow collaboration with developers interested: we release HDSync as free and open source (GNU GPL v3) in the hope it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.