Any ideas about seeing a PC screen on the KISS player?

[Craig_E]

This doesn't involved KML exactly, but i know all the technical people are in this forum :)

Anyway, any thoughts on how you could see your PC screen on your KISS player? I've thought of a few possibilities:

VNC Viewer - This program is already very small and does not require much memory/processing - if the very simplest of encoding was used (as bandwidth isn't a problem on home networks) this could work.

A program that captures/refreshes a jpg image of the desktop, and then this is accessed in the 'pictures' section... maybe integrated into EzLink or something like that.

Live streaming video of the desktop, served to the KISS as a streaming file. I know recording the desktop is possible, but i expect it would be very difficult to get this working.

Any more ideas? Is the KISS capable of using the VNC program?

[sk]

NanoX is running on the player... currently statically linked into the main application.

I found this (VNC on NanoX):
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/way/fr30/uclinux/downloads/nx-vnc332-250800.txt

My current "tasklist" is:
1) find out all KML-Tags (perhaps there is more Interesting stuff)
2) patch the firmware to remove restricted user controll in dvd
3) build my own nano-x running on the player
4) play nano-x doom ;-)

[THD]

NanoX is running on the player... currently statically linked into the main application.
Does the Kiss player already have some sort of X windows client :?: ...

my way of doing this would be a small webserver program that captures the screen and makes a JPG, and generates KML with a refresh tag as fast as possible... but even in a LAN it will not be much better then about 1 image per second because the player navigates about that slow... (tried it)... I already had the idea that you could move the mouse cursor with the arrows... (just to try), but it is so crappy slow that I stopped trying ;)

would be cool if you could control some app with that NanoX system.. hopes it works better ;)

[sk]

Does the Kiss player already have some sort of X windows client

I found some on the NanoX-Functions statically linked into the code. At least they have no networking support for the X - so you can't use the system from remote. But this does not mean that it is impossible to use vnc!

NanoX consists of several Layers. The low level part are the device dependant drivers. I hope they use some kind of framebuffer device... I found some routines trying to open /dev/fb0 but there is no fb0 if I telnet to my player :(

:arrow: http://microwindows.censoft.com/

[ET]

NanoX consists of several Layers. The low level part are the device dependant drivers. I hope they use some kind of framebuffer device...
I doubt so.
Have you seen microwin-0.89/src/drivers/scr_em84xx.c ?
And there is nothing about framebuffer device in kiss kernel config.