SUMMARY: video splitter

From: Phillip Thomas (pthomas@netcom.com)
Date: Thu Dec 09 1993 - 01:09:19 CST


Hi,

I asked this question yesterday:

>> We are doing some training on a bunch of Sun workstations.
>> We would like the instructor to demonstrate on his workstation
>> and have the output of his screen show up on the students
>> workstation screens.
>>
>> Does anyone sell a box (video splitter?) that will send the graphics
>> output of one workstation to several others. Is there other ways
>> to do this?

It turns out that there are both software and hardware solutions to this:

SOFTWARE

The following programs were recommended as software solutions. I have not
had time to actually try any of them.

xtv (free software)
xwatchwin (free software)
xmx (free software)
show me (Sun product, not free)

Other suggestions were to check out the FAQs for the newsgroups
comp.window.x and comp.groupware which might list other programs.

HARDWARE

The following companies sell video splitters and video distribution amps.
A video distribution amp will amplify the video signal and allow multiple
monitors to be placed a long distance form the workstation originating the
video signal.

Extron Electronics
13554 Larwin Circle
Sante Fe Springs, CA 90670
(213) 802-8804

Nudata
Little Silver, NJ
(908) 842-5757

Black Box Corp.
(412) 746-5500

PROS AND CONS

Free software is free but some people said they had trouble compiling and
configuring various free software solutions. Also, in a multi-vendor
environment you have to get the software to compile and run on different
platforms.

Hardware solutions require little configuration, only cabling, but it costs
money. Also, if used in an instructor/student setting, the workstations may have
to be recabled when the demo ends and the students start to use their
individual workstations.

Thanks to:

bbrq990@uk.b-r.com
bern@kleopatra.Uni-Trier.DE
blymn@mulga.awadi.com.AU
brb@ike.safb.af.mil
dougj@iplab.health.ufl.edu
gerchman@sun10or.or.nps.navy.mil
hbg@vattenfall.se
jaap@ice.nl
jdoorn@nl.oracle.com
mark@mayo.EDU
randy@ai.iit.nrc.ca
raoul@MIT.EDU
russ@issi.com
strombrg@pleiades.acs.uci.edu
tom@sees.bangor.ac.uk
vasey@issi.com
<strombrg@pleiades.acs.uci.edu>
<Jaap.Bril@ice.nl>
<jdoorn@nl.oracle.com>
<tom@sees.bangor.ac.uk>
<randy@ai.iit.nrc.ca>
bern@kleopatra.Uni-Trier.DE (Jochen Bern)
blymn@mulga.awadi.com.AU (Brett Lymn)
brb@ike.safb.af.mil (SrA Bruce R Baier)
dgk3247@voltaire.ks.boeing.com (Doug Kratky)
dougj@iplab.health.ufl.edu (Doug Jones)
gerchman@sun10or.or.nps.navy.mil (Kenn Gerchman)
hbg@vattenfall.se (Per Hallenborg)
hou13us!bbrq990@uk.b-r.com (Raymond Trzaska)
mark@mayo.EDU (Mark Korinek)
raoul@MIT.EDU
russ@issi.com
vasey@issi.com



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