Hi Peter, Yes, what Ricardo said. Why do you need VNC if your PC is linked to your TV?
Anyway, video's are usually displayed differently from the other stuff that's on your screen. Rather than going through a windows API, your player streams it's output directly to your graphics card. That means, Windows "sees" only a black screen, but your card displays video content on your display anyway. A tool like VNC interfaces with the windows API and hence, doesn't see the actual content and only sees the black screen. However, if your PC has a secondary video output (like the s-video link to your TV), then it should be able to show movies on both. So, even when the movie isn't visible in your VNC console, it should still appear on your TV (as long as the TV gets it's feed directly from the source PC and not through the VNC console on another machine). BTW, I haven't done any experimenting on this myself, but if you use VLC media player, it has different options to stream the video content to the graphics adapter. Maybe there is one that is compatible with VNC. It's worth a try. Cheers, Pascal On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Ricardo Stella <ste...@rider.edu> wrote: > A little confused... > > If the PC in the basement has the S-video out going to the TV, why would > you need VNC? > > If you are running the VNC player on the PC that is hooked up to the TV > (via S-Video) and the movie sits on another PC on the VNC server (and > this is in your house as well), there are much better options for you to > be able to either stream or mount that movie directly... > > > peter parsons wrote: > > i have VNC free 4.1.3 installed on an XP SP3 box in my basement office. > the > > s-video out on that PC's grafix card goes into my TV upstairs. i can get > the > > image fine and can use VNC on the TV screen. however whenever i try to > watch > > an AVI movie using any number of different apps, i get the audio but the > > viewing appliaction stays black, both in VNC and on the TV. but the movie > is > > running perfectly (image and audio etc) on the basement PC. so to > summarise, > > i get audio but no video picture in the video player, despite seeing the > pc > > desktop etc on VNC and my TV. any ideas? > > thanks > > pupp > > _______________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
