Re: Re: Smart TV on WiFi as Extra Display

["Barak A. Pearlmutter" <barak@pearlmutter.net>]

I'd like to use the TV as an extra display for my laptop. Basically,
as if it were connected with an HDMI cable, but over the network. And
use both displays, the same way one usually uses two displays.

Unless there's a usage of x11vnc that I don't understand, there are
two issues with using x11vnc for this purpose.

* First, WebOS does not have any available VNC client apps, so there's
no straightforward way of getting the TV to display the VNCed display.

* Second, x11vnc allows remote viewing of an *existing* display. So if
there were a vnc client for the TV, it would allow the display on my
laptop to be mirrored to the TV, but would not make the TV into a
second monitor.

But this does suggest a way to achieve the goal. (a) Set up a virtual
frame buffer which X/Wayland/whatever can see/configure. (b) Use
x11vnc -clip to get just the virtual thing. (c) Implement some simple
VNC client which takes a VNC display and broadcasts it using a
standard video codec that any web browser can stream.

It seems like (c) shouldn't be too hard to hack up...

Cheers,

--Barak.