[nas] Re: help with using sox with nas-piping sound

[Tobias Diedrich]

Dave Richards wrote:

>    I have always thought that it would be way cool to run Xawtv over to
> a remote display, but just assumed (maybe incorrectly) that it was doing
> a low level open of the local video card on the console and would not
> work on a remote display.   Are you saying that you are getting the
> video to go over there??   What does it look like if it works.  We have
> 400 NCD thin clients here with NAS, and have always thought it would be
> cool to build a tv server host, build a Linux system, with 4 PCI/WinTV
> cards and then be able to distribute them out to any of the 400
> terminals.

It's not that easy...
If the remote supports the XVideo extensions and your LAN is fast enough
it should work. Maybe it even works without the XVideo extensions, but
then you need even more bandwidth...

Also, forwarding audio from the TV card basically works, but has it's
flaws. Because the two soundcards that are not synchronized you get
dropouts and because of buffering you get sound delay, so video and
audio probably will be quite out of sync.

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