Re: nutball video question

From: Olivier Nicole (on_at_cs.ait.ac.th)
Date: 06/10/03

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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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