Hello, I'm writing this here since there was a related discussion about this a few weeks back and I wanted to share my findings.
I was just looking at hooking up a new wall-mounted monitor at the office to slide-show network status (for now I'll use the "Tab Slideshow" Firefox extension) and learned that it supports something called "DLNA". It's a Samsung 32" LCD TV and its manual specifically talks about connecting to IP networks either via wired or wireless network interface and running slide shows and playing media over it. The manual (PDF) is available at http://tinyurl.com/yauebxe (I'm not sure it's the exact model but the manual is accurate enough so far), DLNA is mentioned in pages 31 to 48. Someone told me they have a Sony which supposedly supports DLNA but it seems like it's used only for firmware upgrades, so if you have experience with DLNA it might be vendor-dependant. DLNA Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dlna DLNA Open Source projects: http://elinux.org/DLNA_Open_Source_Projects I hope to get to use it even if just to enable me to use a single ethernet cable from it to one of our CentOS servers instead of having to put some old laptop just to run the slide show, plus the DLNA slide show application might allow us to control it from the TV's remote control. At worst it must be possible to use some Firefox automation to keep "printing" the pages into files in a directory and serve them as static images. Another use case - Does anyone know whether screen capturing over DLNA is possible? (i.e. somehow hook it to show the screen of an arbitrary network device (e.g. a linux/mac/windows laptop)? Hope you find this useful, Cheers, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
