[AG-TECH] Multicast VNC

[S.Booth]

On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Frank Sweetser wrote:

> Since VNC seems to be an increasingly popular way of displaying PC data (PPT
> slides, data visualization, etc), I was wondering if anyone has played around
> at all with VNC over multicast.  I found at least one package that looks
> very promising at
> 
> http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ziewer/MulticastVNC/
> 

VNC seems a very good "catch-all" technology and I think its something 
we need to look at more closely. 
One possible route that I quite likes was to write a VNC grabber module
for VIC that would allow the sending site to send a VNC session in the
same
way as any other video stream. I started to look into doing this but 
as AG2.0 is going to make adding aditional services much easier I think
its going to be simpler to have a stand-alone multicast VNC service.


			Stephen


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