Darek M wrote: > > Has anyone ever run xawtv or any video grabber over VNC? > > Putting aside why one would want to do this, I'd rather concentrate on > the technical issue involved. > > Loading 'xawtv -nogl' gives me the following errors and a completely > black screen in xawtv: > > Xlib: extension "XVideo" missing on display ":1.0", > Xlib: extension "XVideo" missing on display ":1.0", > > Is it impossible to run it over VNC even over a LAN? I don't need > quality, just to be able to see the section that I want to capture to a > file. I suspect that VNC runs X with its own settings ( it didn't look > at my existing XF86Config nor ~/.xinitrc ) > > If anyone successfully ran a video grabber over another remote > graphical interface, I'm all ears. The option you need is -remote : xawtv -remote How about reading the man pages before asking ? ;-) -- David Balazic -------------- "Be excellent to each other." - Bill S. Preston, Esq., & "Ted" Theodore Logan - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
