[AG-TECH] X-Win32 troubles

[Charles R. Anderson]

Ok, here's a really weird one for you.  We have attempted to run X-Win32
on our Windows display box in order to start the node on the Linux box
and have it display the rat window, etc. on the display machine so we
don't need to have a head on the Linux box.  This works, however,
somehow, the upper left-hand corner of the Windows machine's desktop is
being sent out as a video stream, overriding the camera video that is
coming into the Linux box's video capture card.  This desktop video
image is definately being multicast out, since we can see it on totally
different systems running Open Mash and the Access Grid software, and a
capture of the network traffic verifies that it is coming from the Linux
encoder box.

A bunch of us here have been attempting to figure out how this is
possible, and we are at a loss.  We don't understand how it is possible
that video from the Windows desktop (which isn't running the capture
card or encoder) could end up as a multicast video stream from the Linux
box.  Any ideas? Has anyone else successfully used an X server on their
Windows display box?

Thanks.

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Charles R. Anderson			cra at wpi.edu
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