Streaming Windows video/desktop to Ubuntu Linux.

Hi Everyone,

My significant other has some Chinese Windows software which she uses to watch TV shows from the Internet. I was thinking about hooking up a box to our HDTV so we could watch stuff on that, however I wanted to use Linux (Ubuntu) instead of Windows XP.

Is there a way to stream the full screen video from a Windows XP machine to a Linux machine for display? Or is that not possible?

 

Run the program through wine or crossover?

Streaming full screen = VNC or mstsc/terminal services/remote desktop. And you're gonna need a short 1Gbps cable to get any kind of decent speed or quality off that !

 

Whoa! I think I posted this to the wrong forum. If a Moderator sees this, kindly move it to the PC Section.

In regards to the suggestion, apparently VLC might be able to do it. Stream the whole desktop as an MP4.

 

VLC can but you'll need VLC to display it. And the speed will be slow, because you're outputting to a PCI-xpress 16X bus and then re-reading it back in to memory over a much slower bus which is then going out over a network card, so it will be very joggy.

 

Can it be run in an XP virtual machine with VM ware or something?

 

just use a video-card and output it natively to the television in question and you should be set, as long as it will work with whatever os you would like and your set