Thanks for that, it may well come in useful. I did once chat to a hauppage representative though, who told me that the tuner card sends the overlay directly to the video card, so windows never gets to 'see' it.
I may be wrong however, and the situation may differ between different models of tv card (analogue / digital / satellite / PVR etc.) Best Regards Ed -----Original Message----- From: James Weatherall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 March 2004 11:37 To: 'Ed Lockett'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: can VNC transmit pc- television pictures? Ed, Actually, you can usually see things such as MPEG viewer windows via VNC if you disabled Graphics Accelleration. Cheers, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > >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. _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
