Re: 'nother question

["Robert G. Brown" <bob@xxxxxxx>]

"Zachary Florian" <icthusianz@ameritech.net> asks:
>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
Yes, it's possible.

If the application driving the display is an X-Window application, you can 
cause the display to appear on any display driven by an X-server. Recent
perusal of various Linux-based websites shows me that many such applications 
exist, although I've not seen anything that reads DVD just yet (at least two
of these are in progress).

Suppose you have two machines (we'll call them moe and larry). You want to run 
the application called "tvpanel" on moe, but you want it to appear on the 
display driven by larry. Do the following:

On moe: 
export DISPLAY=larry:0.0

on larry:
xhost +moe

THEN, on moe:
tvpanel

The window supported by "tvpanel" will appear on larry, even though you
are running the program on moe! Now, larry doesn't even need to be running X 
for this to work, but if "tvpanel" calls for any resources (fonts, colormaps,
pixmaps, etc.) they jolly well better be available on larry.

You can do this across any network connection, but I strongly suggest you have 
a good deal of bandwidth between the application and the X-server. A LAN
will do this just fine.

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