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My guess would be they're just using the shared documents area . There's a number of libraries on the desktop that let you access an API to write to the shared

My guess would be they're just using the shared documents area . There's a number of libraries on the desktop that let you access an API to write to the shared documents area. I'd guess they'd just be piping a mp4 feed to this and the iOS would just be reading from there.

ejstronge 12y ago
Is there any chance this approach could eventually be used on a Linux distro or Windows?
- kevin_thibedeau 12y ago
  The technology already exists in X11. The problem is getting devices to act as display servers.
  - ejstronge 12y ago
    I haven't seen examples of folks trying to use iPads (for example) as X11 displays, likely because it's outside my area of expertise. Do you know of any examples?
    - seanp2k2 12y ago
      Sounds like something that could only exist on Cydia. Has anyone checked there?
    - aaronem 12y ago
      iSSH includes an X11 display server, and I've had reasonable success using it with clients on an assortment of architectures, including a Tru64 VM running Open Genera. I wouldn't expect it to work well with something like video playback unless you've got a very fast and uncongested wireless network (or possibly a Lightning-to-Ethernet adapter, if such things exist), but if you don't need that kind of sustained responsiveness, it's at least worth a try.
      - ejstronge 12y ago
        I think the original product link isn't using wireless but instead depends on a wired connection. I've heard about using X11 over the internet but I'm worried that the lag would make this approach more annoying than effective. It would be great to have a wired connection option on other operating systems besides the Mac.
- peatmoss 12y ago
  I do a lot of reading / annotating on my iPad. My other use case mostly involves emacs. I'd love to have a Linux matchstick dongle that I could simply plug in to my iPad to run emacs (and associated goodies like R, Python, etc).
jmnicolas 12y ago
> [...] shared documents area. I'd guess they'd just be piping a mp4 feed to this [...] If this is the case I'd worry about the internal flash drive of the iPad. There must be a lot writes.

ejstronge 12y ago

Is there any chance this approach could eventually be used on a Linux distro or Windows?

kevin_thibedeau 12y ago
The technology already exists in X11. The problem is getting devices to act as display servers.
- ejstronge 12y ago
  I haven't seen examples of folks trying to use iPads (for example) as X11 displays, likely because it's outside my area of expertise. Do you know of any examples?
  - seanp2k2 12y ago
    Sounds like something that could only exist on Cydia. Has anyone checked there?
  - aaronem 12y ago
    iSSH includes an X11 display server, and I've had reasonable success using it with clients on an assortment of architectures, including a Tru64 VM running Open Genera. I wouldn't expect it to work well with something like video playback unless you've got a very fast and uncongested wireless network (or possibly a Lightning-to-Ethernet adapter, if such things exist), but if you don't need that kind of sustained responsiveness, it's at least worth a try.
    - ejstronge 12y ago
      I think the original product link isn't using wireless but instead depends on a wired connection. I've heard about using X11 over the internet but I'm worried that the lag would make this approach more annoying than effective. It would be great to have a wired connection option on other operating systems besides the Mac.
peatmoss 12y ago
I do a lot of reading / annotating on my iPad. My other use case mostly involves emacs. I'd love to have a Linux matchstick dongle that I could simply plug in to my iPad to run emacs (and associated goodies like R, Python, etc).

jmnicolas 12y ago

> [...] shared documents area. I'd guess they'd just be piping a mp4 feed to this [...] If this is the case I'd worry about the internal flash drive of the iPad. There must be a lot writes.