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From: Jon Passki <jon@caffeinated-systems.com>
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Subject: Re: Video Out to Video In converter
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Shameless self-followup...

On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 09:15:32AM -0500, Jon Passki wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm looking for a device that would allow me to connect, for example, 
> a standard PC video output (640x480, 256 color) to a device that could
> in turn convert it back into an abstracted signal.  That device would 
> be accessed by, again an example, a local program that would resend 
> the information out using the X protocol as a client program. The 
> purpose is to access systems that have no means of communications 
> other than video and keyboard, without needed a monitor or needed to 
> be physically near the system.

Okay, I should have searched longer. I guess the term is a KVM-over-IP 
device. Many of them have their own servers, though.  Some http w/ 
SSL, some with VNC.  Has anyone seen a device that can connect to a 
host system, like FreeBSD, and be utilized by that system, versus the 
black-box approach?

Jon