VNC + sharing the same desktop

[Mike Fedyk]

William Hooper wrote:
> Ow Mun Heng said:
> 
>>Guys,
>>
>>
>>is there anyway to configure VNC to share the same desktop whenever I 
>>connect to the PC?
> 
> 
> http://www.realvnc.com/v4/x0.html
> 
> 
>>The thing here is that, I'm trying to view a movie 
> 
> 
> Since your movie player is most likely talking directly to the video hardware it probably won't work.  Even if it does I doubt you will get acceptable frame rates.
> 

There was a work-around for this, but I forget what it was.  Probably 
just disabled the hw acceleration, but I seem to remember that not being 
the case.  Check the real-vnc archives.

Mike