----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Dial" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 1:06 PM Subject: media with vnc
> Hello, > > I've been trying to figure out a solution to an interesting problem I > have with vnc. I'm using hte latest with the server on a windows > machine and viewer on linux. Sometimes when I'm connected, i can load a > movie file into like windows media player, play it and see the movie. > Granted it is slowed, updates only every second or so but I can at least > see what's going on. Other times I try to do the same thing but only > get a black screen inside of media player no matter what i do, even > though i know the movie is playing. This symptom appears in a lot of > media programs such as tmpgenc even. I've tried playing with settings > on the server but am not sure what the problem is. Any ideas? > > Thanks, > > -Brian Same as the answer to "JES" earlier today. If the app sends data directly to the video card VNC can't grab the updates. DirectX programs are one example of this. You might try backing down the video card acceleration settings, but expect performance on the local machine to suffer. -- William Hooper 98% of all statistics is useless ! _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
