using vnc to contol dial up on remote pc?

[Christopher Tesla]

Thanks!  I'll give these a try tonight and let you know how they work!

C-ya
Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Brown [mailto:jtb@attbi.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 2:01 PM
> To: Christopher Tesla
> Cc: vnc-list@realvnc.com
> Subject: Re: using vnc to contol dial up on remote pc?
> 
> 
> Hi Christopher,
> 
> > How do you get video input to play in VNC?
> >
> > I have tried many different methods to get a video input to 
> show up when
> > I am VNCed into a remote computer...
> > 
> > Setup:  One PC on LAN with TV Tuner card...other PC using 
> VNC to connect
> > Result: Black screen in TV In screen.
> > 
> > From what I had been told the video input bypasses VNC, and 
> I accept this.
> > But how are you able to get a video input from a camera, 
> which should be
> > the same thing as a TV Tuner (unless it's a USB camera?) ?
> 
>    I had tried to do the same thing.. though using VNC on my 
> TV tuner did
>    work somewhat.. but only occasional refresh, I resorted to using an
>    application (WebMedia) available from;
> 
>      http://www.vs.informatik.uni-ilm.de
> 
>    That handled the Video portion for me, but I then had 
> problems getting
>    WebMedia Audio to work, so resorted to using WebMedia for 
> the Video and
>    SpeakFreely;
> 
>      http://www.speakfreely.org
> 
>    For the Audio..
> 
>    This configuration can seemingly fairly lightweight network
>    resources/bandwidth wise server either as a TV Video & 
> Audio server.. or
>    as A teleconferencing server using a WebCam and microphone 
> instead of a
>    TV Tuner as input.
> 
>    Hope this helps..
> 
>                                          Best Regards,
>                                               Jim Brown