Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 05:47:34 -0800 (PST) From: just matt <matt@dqc.org> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kudos ... and questions ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.21.0001260543010.24419-100000@dqc.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001260052240.652-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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> 2. > I have an older Hauppage WinTV Tuner card ... fxtv works > beautifully on it, get full channels, etc, etc ... sounds works ... what I > would *like* to do is 'setenv DISPLAY work:0.0' and watch TV at work, with > full sound. Is this possible? If so, pointers would be appreciated ... > This is a very bad idea. I've tried running fxtv on a remote display, and you get a max of about 2 minutes of choppy use before the machine with the WinTV card freezes and needs to be rebooted. This was with 10Mbps local ethernet, and I doubt 100Mbps would make it work any more stabler. If you want to watch tv remotely, your best bet is to use vic/vat to get things done, but the loss in quality is considerable. I got vic to work over my 10Mbps local ethernet, but I only got about 15 frames per second with rather dubious quality when only one machine was recieving it. It got worse as I added machines. The quality was poor enough(and cpu intensive enough) that I gave up and never tried to get vic to broadcast the audio. That and you can't change channels with vic so you're stuck with one channel remotely... I'm sure there is a way to get around that but considering the relative uselessness of it all, it wasn't worth the effort. - Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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