>From what I understand, video windows are often created using an overlay method. Specifically with TV cards such as Hauppage, the card itself is entirely resposible for the video picture, which is added in place of the 'black box' AFTER windows has drawn the screen. For this reason, I do not think it is possible to display the TV picture on a remote VNC desktop.
However, it may be more likely with other setups (eg. Dvd/avi/mpg file playback using dvd player/media player/winamp etc). I have used VNC to sucessfully watch streaming video in internet explorer. Experiment with different combinations, but it is safe to say that if it does not work an an x86 viewer it won't on any other viewer either. Reason being that in the case of overlay video, the VNC server cannot see the picture to transmit it. At any rate, I do not think it's likely (even on a LAN) that you would want to watch TV or a film in this way, the quality would just be too poor. There are third party applications which can stream video over a network from various sources. You should chack these out, one I read about a while back seemed to be quite impressive. Can't remember the name now though. There is also a component called media services in windows server, but I am not sure of its exact capabilities. Hope this helps. Ed -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Lemcke Sent: 01 March 2004 03:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: can VNC transmit pc- television pictures? Has anybody gotten anything like this work? I was always hoping to be able to watch media player on my desktop over the internet. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Casson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 9:09 AM Subject: can VNC transmit pc- television pictures? > hi guys > > Im wondering if you could use vnc to transmit tv pictures onto a > handheld PDA. i am unable to test this myself as i am waiting on my > handeld device to > be delivered. > > I have a haupage card that shows pictures on my main pc (server) and > would like to transmit that to an other device, i have tried this as > my laptop as > a viewer but dont manage to get it to work as i get a black space > where the > tv pictures should be, doesnt even work if i resize the window to the > smallest possible size. > > Any ideas on how to make this work or is it impossible? > > _________________________________________________________________ > Sign-up for a FREE BT Broadband connection today! > http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/btbroadband > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
