> Has anyone ever run xawtv or any video grabber over VNC?
>
> Putting aside why one would want to do this, I'd rather concentrate on
> the technical issue involved.
>
> Loading 'xawtv -nogl' gives me the following errors and a completely
> black screen in xawtv:
>
> Xlib: extension "XVideo" missing on display ":1.0",
> Xlib: extension "XVideo" missing on display ":1.0",
>
> Is it impossible to run it over VNC even over a LAN? I don't need
> quality, just to be able to see the section that I want to capture to a
> file. I suspect that VNC runs X with its own settings ( it didn't look
> at my existing XF86Config nor ~/.xinitrc )
>
> If anyone successfully ran a video grabber over another remote
> graphical interface, I'm all ears.
>
Sure you can do it, it's just very slow. Start it without XVideo
("-noxv" or something like that). You might as well email those
frames, tho'.
Jonk
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