UltraVNC

Just thought I'd come back with my findings.

I installed and tested RealVNC free version 4.1.3. I am able to see all of the SageTV menus. I can even see LiveTV or recordings playing, though that's just a frame here and there as I have a slow remote connection. Don't need that anyway; am interested ...

I've just heard back from the SageTV developer:

We don't use standard windows drawing routines is probably why. If 3D acceleration is on, then it's using Direct3D to draw and that version of VNC may not hook into that properly. If it's off; then it's using Java drawing routines which again don't ...

I will try a couple other 'flavors' of VNC, I didn't think about that one. Good idea, thank you If you think of anything else, please let me know.

I've emailed the SageTV dev, perhaps he can shed some light on this...

Kind regards,
--appyface

Hello B, thanks for reply.

Video drivers are current, thanks for idea though. This system has big crossfire graphics cards installed as I do a lot of video editing so I keep them current.

I do know that SageTV writes the output videos directly to the graphics system which makes it difficult for ...

(I searched here awhile but missed finding any posts, please point me if I missed and the info is here, thank you :-) )

I've been running UltraVNC server and viewer client 1.0.8.2 for as long as it has been out, and have not run into any significant issues.

But for this one I'm stumped. I've had ...