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From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
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Subject: Re: Video Out to Video In converter 
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> Yeah; it's a cool idea that you really don't have much of a
> chance of ever getting implemented.  8-).
> 
> Basically, you want to take some digital data, like the contents
> of a VGA card RAM, let the card turn it analog, and then take
> the analog signal and turn it back into a digital copy of the
> original screen RAM.

There are cards that accept VCR input (cards such as WinTV).
Most all laptops have a TV-out signal but external SVGA to
NTSC converters should be available.  May be he can feed such
a TV-out signal to video in of a winTV card, capture each
frame digitally and send it out over the net?  This should
just "work".  Check out multimedia@freebsd.org archives.