Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 11:09:08 +0700 (ICT) From: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> To: jshamlet@comcast.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nutball video question Message-ID: <200306100409.LAA04920@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <20030609235123.A2171@alexandria.gambrl01.md.comcast.net> (jshamlet@comcast.net) References: <20030609235123.A2171@alexandria.gambrl01.md.comcast.net>
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> 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
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