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NVIDIA Corporation
Quadro FX 4500/5500 SDI User’s Guide – Version 2.0 
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API Control
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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: 
 
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.