Nvidia Quadro FX 5500 - Manual (Page 47)

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Quadro FX 4500/5500 SDI User’s Guide – Version 2.0 43
C HAPTER 5
API Control
C
H A P T E R
API C
ONTROL
The SDI application programming interface allows OpenGL or Direct3D applications to
have full and exclusive control of the SDI output. This method of controlling the SDI
output is also known as extended mode.
This chapter gives a brief introduction to this method of implementing graphics to SDI,
and includes the following sections:
• “SDI Application Programming Overview” on page 44
• “Windows XP NvGvo API Description” on page 45
• “Linux CONTROL X Extension API” on page 66
Refer to the following documents for additional information on using the APIs:
• Programming the NVIDA Quadro FX 4000/4500 SDI
• The
NVGVOSDK
, which can be obtained from NVIDIA.