Re: remote DVB watching ?

[Marcus O.C. Metzler <mocm@netcologne.de>]

Carsten Koch writes:
 > Kassian Plankensteiner wrote:
 > > 
 > > Hi, i got a few questions and I hope someone can answer them.
 > > I got my DVB card in my firewall/server and want to watch Astra Digital
 > > TV from INSIDE the network, is this possible ?
 > > 
 > > My LAN looks like this.
 > > 
 > > INTERNET <- Server (DVB) <---> Linux workstation
 > > 
 > > The workstation is masqueraded and squid'ed for EON access.
 > > Is there any chance to run something like gVideo on the Linux
 > > workstation to watch TV from the DVB card in the server ?
 > 
 > I do not think you can run gVideo on the server and redirect
 > its X window to the Linux workstation using the DISPLAY environment
 > variable, because AFAIK gVideo uses an overlay created by the
 > DVB card to display the video, which can obviously not work in
 > a remote X window.
 > 
Of course you can. Just use gVideo -r (as in remote)

Marcus