[Wylug-help] streaming video from a pc without X to a pc with X

[John Hodrien]

On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Yiannis Gatsoulis wrote:

> Thanks for the reply. Now it has to be live motion. Let's say that for now 
> the quality is smth like 360x280 pixels but it would be nice to use higher 
> resolution webcams. The communication channel is wifi peer to peer.... ie two 
> pcs connected to each other, which means that it can be 1-1, in fact for 
> video I need a one direction streaming from the pc without X to the pc with 
> X. I also forgot to mention that audio streaming would also be helpful and 
> this would ideally be a duplex comminucation (half or full). On the X side I 
> could use a previewer to watch the video streamed. I was thinking of the 
> messenger like things.... something like have ekiga from the X side but 
> something that can transmit video and audio to ekiga on the other.

vic?

http://www-mice.cs.ucl.ac.uk/multimedia/software/

Assuming you have X libs installed on the remote machine camstream actually
works quite well as a remote X app for monitoring V4L devices.

jh

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