[kwlug-disc] Where to fix an Acer A500 tablet?

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

Good ideas. Thanks.

Yes, if do it all from one laptop, that would be great.

By any chance, does anyone know which application can be used to
stream from a web cam to the desktop? KDE and XUbuntu variants?

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 8:49 PM, B. S. <bs27975 at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> Presumably you'll be bringing your laptop / slides, just plug the cam into that. The VGA of your screen being projected will just pick it up.
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> Note: You may need to lower / change the camera resolution - the projector may present just a black box in the webcam area, depending upon the bpp/resolution within the webcam box.
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> If you use a usb keyboard on the tablet or something, you may be able to leave the cam & tablet in one place for the duration, particularly if you can KVM the display / VGA - switching to the HDMI when desired, leaving / switching to the laptop in split screen cam|slide the rest of the time.
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com>
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>> The only sure way is to have a separate video camera / webcam pointed
>> at the tablet. But I don't know how a video camera / webcam would
>> connect to the VGA output.
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