Streaming Windows video/desktop to Ubuntu Linux.

[Trenton_net]

Hi Everyone,

My significant other has some Chinese Windows software which she uses to watch TV shows from the Internet. I was thinking about hooking up a box to our HDTV so we could watch stuff on that, however I wanted to use Linux (Ubuntu) instead of Windows XP.

Is there a way to stream the full screen video from a Windows XP machine to a Linux machine for display? Or is that not possible?

[splith]

Run the program through wine or crossover?

Streaming full screen = VNC or mstsc/terminal services/remote desktop. And you're gonna need a short 1Gbps cable to get any kind of decent speed or quality off that !

[Trenton_net]

Whoa! I think I posted this to the wrong forum. If a Moderator sees this, kindly move it to the PC Section.

In regards to the suggestion, apparently VLC might be able to do it. Stream the whole desktop as an MP4.

[splith]

VLC can but you'll need VLC to display it. And the speed will be slow, because you're outputting to a PCI-xpress 16X bus and then re-reading it back in to memory over a much slower bus which is then going out over a network card, so it will be very joggy.

[danhans115]

Can it be run in an XP virtual machine with VM ware or something?

[bob]

just use a video-card and output it natively to the television in question and you should be set, as long as it will work with whatever os you would like and your set