Re: TV over LAN?

[Thomas Hessling <thomas.hessling@dream-dimensions.de>]

Hey Timo,

> in my LAN i have running a gateway, a workstation and a laptop. The
> workstation is equipped with a TV card (BT878) and works just fine.
> Is there a way to view TV on my laptop by using the PC and the LAN?
> [...]
> Any ideas what ways exist? Maybe simple X forwarding, but are there
> other ways (what about xhost/xauth settings)?

X forwarding should do it. You might have to add the workstation to your
laptop's xhost list (xhost +hostname_of_workstation) - depends on your X
server configuration. Afterwards just ssh to your workstation and run
the TV program.


Greets,
Thomas