Ultra VNC and SageTV

mayamaniac · #1 03-02-2006, 04:33 AM

Not sure what happened but I lost the SageTV UI through UltraVNC. It just shows black now. I had it working before and not sure what changed or happened nor can find the setting to change it back to the way it was. I do have the video hook driver installed. Any ideas?

JUC · #2 03-02-2006, 06:14 AM

i use ultraVNC and sometimes also get just a black interface--most of the times if i just restart the session it comes back. What though is the video hook driver?
thanks
JUC

dflachbart · #3 03-02-2006, 07:31 AM

Have you ever tried TightVNC ? I'm using it all the time on my headless server. It was much faster for me, and I never had the problem with the SageTV GUI disappearing ...

Dirk

lotusvball · #4 03-02-2006, 08:12 AM

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Originally Posted by flachbar

Have you ever tried TightVNC ? I'm using it all the time on my headless server. It was much faster for me, and I never had the problem with the SageTV GUI disappearing ...

Dirk

When I go to full screen mode using TightVNC the screen size doen't change it just puts white in the area that is not taken up by the remote screen. Is this normal or should full screen be full screen?

JUC · #5 03-02-2006, 08:50 AM

i think the resolutions on both the viewer and server need to be the same for the viewer to show full screen...at least that is what I have been experiencing.
JUC

dflachbart · #6 03-02-2006, 09:05 AM

Yeah, I dont't think the TightVNC server can 'upconvert' a lower resolution to the higher client resolution ... Can UltraVNC do this ? Has never been a problem for me, the 800x600 window on my 1024x768 laptop displays just fine ...

Dirk

JUC · #7 03-02-2006, 09:19 AM

for ultravnc--my server is running at 800x600 and my laptop at 1024x 768 and my laptop cannot get the fullscreen using the UltraVNC viewer unless i change the resolutions to match...

flachbar--are you saying you can do this with TightVNC?

dflachbart · #8 03-02-2006, 09:26 AM

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Originally Posted by JUC

flachbar--are you saying you can do this with TightVNC?

Nope, I was trying to say that this does not work with TightVNC. But as I said, never has been a problem for me ...

Dirk

JUC · #9 03-02-2006, 10:58 AM

got it--the never has been a problem-through me off. Ya--its not a problem for me either.
JUC

mayamaniac · #10 03-02-2006, 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by JUC

What though is the video hook driver?
thanks
JUC

http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/features/driver.html

geogecko · #11 03-04-2006, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by mayamaniac

http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/features/driver.html

Uninstall the video hook driver. For some reason, if you use it, you always end up with a black screen.

I uninstalled it (believe it's on the server, or remote machine), and all works just fine now.

I don't get full playback (frame rate limited...) while watching TV, but at least it's enough to get things setup.

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