Re: 'nother question

["Adam Williams" <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 1, 10:17pm, Zachary Florian wrote:
> Subject: 'nother question
> so here's my question: would it be possible to have, say a tv card or a DVD
> drive, in one computer and be able to watch the video on another computer on
> a network, or no

Linux does not support DVD at this time,  although I am told that it will very
soon.  As for the TV tuner card, many if not most, are supported but the video
4 linux api,  so you could watch TV via X with an ethernet connection.  My
experiende with video over X is you need a good PCI ethernet card,  an NE2000
ISA intermititanly overruns, causing a collision storm, and usually soaks up
loads of CPU time.  My WD8013 ISA shared memory card does a decent job, but
still jitters occasionally when another CPU intensive job is running.  With a
Linksys tulip based card the machine never misses a beat.