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Xref: sserve comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video:4123 comp.windows.x.i386unix:7478 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1978 Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.intercon.com!news.pipeline.com!malgudi.oar.net!news.uakron.edu!news.csuohio.edu!stever From: stever@csuohio.edu (Steve Ratliff) Subject: Re: Video output Message-ID: <1994Feb25.073043.2844@news.csuohio.edu> Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Cleveland State University X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5 References: <2kjd5f$g32@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 07:30:43 GMT Lines: 31 George Michaelson (ggm@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au) wrote: : richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes: : : >I'm looking for some hardware that will allow me to record the display : >on a PC onto videotape (VHS/PAL). I will be running XFree under : >NetBSD. : : >What are the options for doing this? Will I have to reduce the PC : >display resolution to that of the video? I'm willing to get either an : >external adaptor or a replacement video card, so long as it works : >under X. : [deleted]: : : Why not persuade SGI to loan you an Iris with Galileo, and use remote X : to get the NetBSD box to display onto the Iris which can then drive the : tapedeck directly? It'll only cost around $150k to buy the setup :-) : [sig-deleted] If you have a second Windoze machine available that you can network over ethernet to your NetBSD box you can do remote X to the Windows box. Cheap VHS video recording cards are available from _many_ diferent companies for around $300.00 with Windows drivers. You can then use ~/demo/xwindemo.zip from cica.indiana.edu in full screen mode to run any Xwindow_manager/program you want from the NetBSD box and record it simply from the Windows box. The Xwin demo program works quite nicely and takes quite a bit of the processing load off your unix box. Steve