From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 9 21:07:34 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 842CE37B401 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2003 21:07:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cs.ait.ac.th (mail.cs.ait.ac.th [192.41.170.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4311443F93 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2003 21:07:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from on@cs.ait.ac.th) Received: from banyan.cs.ait.ac.th (on@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th [192.41.170.5]) by mail.cs.ait.ac.th (8.12.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h5A47R4l079909; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 11:07:28 +0700 (ICT) Received: (from on@localhost) by banyan.cs.ait.ac.th (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA04920; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 11:09:08 +0700 (ICT) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 11:09:08 +0700 (ICT) Message-Id: <200306100409.LAA04920@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> X-Authentication-Warning: banyan.cs.ait.ac.th: on set sender to on@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th using -f From: Olivier Nicole To: jshamlet@comcast.net In-reply-to: <20030609235123.A2171@alexandria.gambrl01.md.comcast.net> (jshamlet@comcast.net) References: <20030609235123.A2171@alexandria.gambrl01.md.comcast.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nutball video question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 04:07:34 -0000 > I have one of the older Happauge WinTV boards (that is supported by > FreeBSD). Unfortunately, the only machine with an open PCI slot is my > headless server. I have a number of IBM netstations attached to this > server via a 100Mbps switched ethernet LAN. Currently, I am using KDE as > my desktop environment. I have no idea what the X server is, but I do know > KDE apps grumple a lot about the X server lacking features. > > Is it possible to stream video to these X terminals, even if it's not > "movie quality"? I'm thinking something along the lines of a security > camera setup, where it is OK if the video is the size of a business card, > and isn't updated terribly fast. That being said, could the same stream > be sent to two or more terminals simultaneously? Should be posible, if you use multicast, you have only one stream on your LAN and any workstation can listen to it. > > The likely problems here are that the video transmission would be done in > X, which could result in bandwidth issues, and the little problem of my > monitor locking the video device. > > Alternately, and perhaps even better, is there a way to capture still > images from this board, for use as a "webcam"? The card is build around a brooktree 848 right? (I think I remember that) If yes, still images are EASY to grab. There are samples in the brooktree driver man page. Olivier