Viewing RealTime via network.....Help????

Hello All,

I have finished networking all computers in our house via CAT5e cable. One of these being my desktop in my office and one of the others being my laptop (which I use to capture avi's with my ToUcam Pro.

I had high hopes of being able to view my video capturing RealTime via the network cable from lap top to desk top. This was my idea of solving the dropped frames issue with my Pentium II 10 G laptop. Is this possible?????

Thanks for your help.
Clear Skies,
Tom Tolla

Hmmmm, not sure Tom, as you'll still be going through that laptop...
I pretty much picture it as remote controlling the laptop via PCAnywhere or VNC, but I cannot see how you would be capturing video real-time into your desktop. First would have to go to the laptop, and then to the desktop...

If you remote control the laptop, then you'll be seeing real-time what's going on in your laptop, but it will not be ON your desktop until you transfer the data... sorry.


Maybe somebody else might have another idea...



Good luck, and clear skies!



Ivan

try installing the software on your desktop and then running your capture program over the network via the laptop

ie boot laptop and get it all set up and tell the desktop software to run the camera

if it can find the camera on your laptop, you should be able to run it that way

Tom, I have had no trouble getting photographic data to differrent computers. Most software allows you to specify a destination file where the images will be stored as the images are collected. I specify the network file folder that I want and everything goes to that directory over the 100 mbs ethernet automatically. The laptop is merely a relay device between the camera and the network. This approach gets the data to the computer that you want but does not display the data. For realtime display, I simply use VNC and watch the images come in on the laptop from the host computer.
Ted