RE: problem with viewing pc movies over VNC

2009-04-11 Thread James Weatherall
Peter, It sounds like your video app may be using video overlays. Some apps provide an option to choose whether to use video overlay rendering or VMR7 or VMR9 - Windows Media Player, for example, has an option allowing you to prevent it from using overlays. If you disable overlays then the video

Re: problem with viewing pc movies over VNC

2009-04-10 Thread Pascal Rottier
Hi Peter, Yes, what Ricardo said. Why do you need VNC if your PC is linked to your TV? Anyway, video's are usually displayed differently from the other stuff that's on your screen. Rather than going through a windows API, your player streams it's output directly to your graphics card. That means,

Re: problem with viewing pc movies over VNC

2009-04-10 Thread Ricardo Stella
A little confused... If the PC in the basement has the S-video out going to the TV, why would you need VNC? If you are running the VNC player on the PC that is hooked up to the TV (via S-Video) and the movie sits on another PC on the VNC server (and this is in your house as well), there are much