14 Aug
2006
14 Aug
'06
2:22 p.m.
jim stephens wrote:
Don wrote:
Yeah, but you have to *open* the box-to-be-monitored
to install the card (?). So, you need to design a
card for each different bus, etc.
The *killer* product is one that sits on the video
(output) -- far more portable (and far more difficult
to design, even with highly integrated video digitizers
since you dont have ready access to the dot-clock). :-(
jim stephens wrote:
The "killer app" is a video digitizer with a network
spigot on the back end. Plug video, audio, mouse, keyboard
into the box and address it over the wire!
Reasonably trivial to do *except* for full motion video
support :-(
I have one of the early Apex IP solutions, which puts a
PCI card in a cheap compaq running Win NT4, and you
export the desktop of the Win NT box when you have the
video viewer app up on on your screen. Not fine, because
the mouse motions have to be tranfered in via vnc, then
when you connect into the viewer application which views
the input from the PCI card that has quirks.
It's cute if you are on the box's desktop, but pretty
much sucked for much else. I also had experience with a recent box with an
integrated
system to do video / mouse / kb on one side (including
automagic USB on one usb B for both USB Mice and
keyboard) and it was better, but still quirky. If you boot
it up and don't change video mode it worked okay, but
was still not as good as VNC into a system.
VNC is "doable" but, again, you have to get *into* the
system to install it. Sitting on the video out would
be great because it would be *just* as noninvasive as
a KVM (though apparently many KVM's are buggy).
I'd just like to see a vga card with an extra RJ45
on the
back and VNC and VGA db15 on the back, plus
a connector for the mouse and keyboard for the system.
There are add-in cards that will give you serial access
to the IPL process. But, I don't think any that will
export the raw video "over the net".