hal@slovax.WA.COM (hal) (10/13/89)
We have a need to record video images off the console of a 9000/330. What we are doing is to "collect", as perhaps in frame-grabber mode, what users are doing on the target machine (we work for the Army, so there's no security/secrecy/snooping problem on this), and store it to another machine for later "analysis". I'm just a software engineer, so I don't question the whys and what-are-you-going-to-do-with-its. We'd like to restrict impact on the target machine (actually they said "no impact at all"), so it becomes difficult to deal with the video map. We may have to do that, but I was hoping there might be a way to physically tap the RGB signals, run them to another box somewhere, and recreate the video map for frame-grabbing purposes. Anybody have any ideas? (I don't, so I wouldn't be surprised if you don't either!) Thanks much. Hal Miller R&D Associates, Inc. Fort Lewis, Washington (206) 967-8018 hal@slovax.wa.com
rjn@hpfcso.HP.COM (Bob Niland) (10/15/89)
re: "...I was hoping there might be a way to physically tap the RGB signals.."
> Anybody have any ideas?
Contact your local HP sales rep. There are at least two 3rd-party boxes or
cards that can do this. One is from Folsom Research, but I don't have any
additional info at hand.
Regards, Hewlett-Packard
Bob Niland rjn%hpfcrjn@hplabs.HP.COM 3404 East Harmony Road
[hplabs|hpu...!hpfcse]!rjn Ft Collins CO 80525-9599tonyc@hpurvmc.HP.COM ( Tony Cox (SR) ) (10/16/89)
There is a video card that plugs into a dioII slot on the 330 or the 835ch. The card is made by Folsom Research and it's called the Aurora 300. It scan converts from hi res to ntsc/pal in real time and it appears to work pretty well. RGB technology has several boxes available as well. Folsom is in LaJolla Ca. if you don't want to wait for your sales rep. tonyc
blaho@hpfcdq.HP.COM (Bruce Blaho) (10/16/89)
>We have a need to record video images off the console of a 9000/330. What >we are doing is to "collect", as perhaps in frame-grabber mode, what users >are doing on the target machine (we work for the Army, so there's no >security/secrecy/snooping problem on this), and store it to another machine >for later "analysis". >Anybody have any ideas? (I don't, so I wouldn't be surprised if you don't >either!) >Thanks much. >Hal Miller >R&D Associates, Inc. >Fort Lewis, Washington >(206) 967-8018 >hal@slovax.wa.com >---------- Do you really need the actual video display signal? Why don't you just read the contents of the frame buffer across the network? You could do this with a very simple Starbase program using "block_read". Any video based solution is going to require video-out hardware installed in every workstation you want to snoop. Bruce Blaho HP Workstation Group Graphics Technology Division, Software Lab