From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
To: "John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com>
Cc: video4linux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: NX client and remote video input devices
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 11:58:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080602155800.GE933@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1212421034.7097.19.camel@jaspav.missionsit.net.missionsit.net>
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 11:37:14AM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> The SMB share is something NX supports natively. We noticed we could
> create a symbolic link to /dev/video0 and use this link to manage the
SMB can't export devices, let alone manage a distributed mmap interface
> How can we control and access a video input device on a remote computer?
> This is a high priority project for us (our first potential customer) so
> any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks - John
You need some kind of video library in the middle. Look at something like
gstreamer or videolan would be my first thoughts. A lot of video apps already
use gstreamer as their video framework and it means compression and processing
can occur before you burn network bandwidth.
Alan
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2008-06-02 15:37 NX client and remote video input devices John A. Sullivan III
2008-06-02 15:58 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-06-02 16:27 ` John A. Sullivan III
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