Hal Vaughan wrote: > I'm thinking of using an N770 as the control for a headless system for > several reasons. While it's not a must, one thing that would be nice > is to also view video through such a setup. There will be times when > I'll be stuck alone with this system and it will have a DVD player so > if I could watch DVDs it'd be nice. > > Basically I was planning on using VNC tunneled through ssh for security > and over wifi to connect my N770 to the main system. Would this create > too slow a connection to watch video? Would it make a difference if I > had the base system stream the video then watched on the N770 by just > reading the network stream and playing it back instead of using VNC? > > Thanks! > > Hal > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > > It probably would be too slow on account of the encryption - a 500kbps xvid stream (400x240) is just about the max that can be decoded from local storage on an N800. You always have the option of simply loading a large memory card with videos if that's your intent, though. Most everything else remotely should be alright. Ryan
