[Novalug] display video *input* on thinkpad t20?

[greg pryzby]

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google
linux t20 svideo

the s-video is OUTPUT only, as I expected.

http://www.thinkwiki.org/
http://mr.uue.org/gnulinux/t20/#svideo


Dave Aronson wrote:
> Dear NoVaLUG:
> 
> My wife has a Thinkpad T20, running Linux (sorry, dunno what distro or
> version), with no DVD player.  She would like to use it as a screen for
> a separate DVD player.  It does have an S-video port, and some of the
> stuff I've seen implies that it can be used as an input.  Any clues how
> one would do this under Linux, on a lappy?
> 
> I tried googling 'linux "video input"' (sans single-quotes), but didn't
> come up with anything that looked to me to be helpful.  (This may be
> partly because I know next to nothing about video capture, editing, and
> so on!  I have never tried building a MythTV box or BeVo, and don't even
> have a TiVo.)
> 
> One page mentioned an app called "Monitor Mode"... for the Mac.  Is
> there some equivalent for Linux?  I googled 'linux "monitor mode"' but
> all the hits seem to be about monitoring network traffic, or calculating
> the base mode for one's monitor, or the mode of using multiple monitors,
> not using a system's display as a monitor for an external video source.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave
> 

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