nutball video question

[J. Seth Henry]

Ok, I'm not sure if this will work (or if it does, how well), but I'm
curious to see what happens.

I have one of the older Happauge WinTV boards (that is supported by
FreeBSD). Unfortunately, the only machine with an open PCI slot is my
headless server. I have a number of IBM netstations attached to this
server via a 100Mbps switched ethernet LAN. Currently, I am using KDE as
my desktop environment. I have no idea what the X server is, but I do know
KDE apps grumple a lot about the X server lacking features.

Is it possible to stream video to these X terminals, even if it's not
"movie quality"? I'm thinking something along the lines of a security
camera setup, where it is OK if the video is the size of a business card,
and isn't updated terribly fast. That being said, could the same stream
be sent to two or more terminals simultaneously?

The likely problems here are that the video transmission would be done in
X, which could result in bandwidth issues, and the little problem of my
monitor locking the video device.

Alternately, and perhaps even better, is there a way to capture still
images from this board, for use as a "webcam"?

FYR, this is strictly for experimentation purposes. :)

Thanks,
Seth Henry