Journal wowbagger's Journal: Submission: Exporting a display to an MPEG stream? on 0 4
Per my usual, since I have had a temporary lapse of judgement and attempted to submit a story to
wowbagger writes "Has anybody ever heard of a VNC-like tool that, instead of exporting to Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol or VNC, exports the display to a UPnP hosted MPEG stream?
With the rising number of set top boxes/TV sets/media players that can play MPEG content from a UPnP server, a program that could scrape a display, convert it to an MPEG stream, and send it via UPnP to those devices could allow many existing devices to act as a remote display. Yes, exporting via MPEG wouldn't be as "good" as via a protocol designed for such a purpose, but unless and until you see all these devices coming with a VNC or RDP client, that option is not open.
Even better would be a program that acted like vncserver in that it would create a virtual display that persisted even when no client was connected, so that an otherwise headless server could be viewed via a set top box."
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BTW - am I the only one who thinks the UI on
Hey I did that years ago! (Score:1)
With whatever Microsoft's video tool chain was. It was absolutely an HORRIBLE hack though.
So at the time I had a Matrox G400 MAX (WOOHOO!) with Dual Head outputs and an external VGA-->Video converted box, this was before every video card in the world came with the ability to output to a TV using converter cables.
I also had a TV tuner card with composite in.
You can see where this is going.
So I set my Matrox to clone display mode, outputing the same signal over both VGA ports. I plugged one of the VGA po
Kinda-Sorta (Score:2)
There's a VNC client that produces FLV files. http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/python/vnc2flv/index.html [unixuser.org]
From there you can convert to mpeg, but in terms of doing all this as a realtime streaming thing... that would depend.
Webcamstudio (Score:1)
http://www.ws4gl.org/ [ws4gl.org]
I am not sure this does all of what you want but I think it does some of it but maybe not in a way you would be happy with.
I know it can set up a stream of what is happening on your desktop as well as other stuff.
Re: (Score:2)
That's interesting, and I may look into it more....