A daft idea about using a printerserver to import video . . .

[Ian Wood]

On 3 May 2007, at 07:26, Richmond Mathewson wrote:

> Of course the idea of using a printserver is probably
> daft as, normally, the information normally flows the
> other way, i.e. from the network to the printer.
> However, I don't see how my ethernet port is going to,
> in itself, differentiate between print signals and
> video signals: surely they are both just electronic
> pulses? When the electronic pulses come into the PC it
> is up to some piece of software as to how they are
> subsequently interpreted.

The problem is not the ethernet connection, it's the print server -  
they ONLY work with printers, and don't understand any other USB  
device. I looked into this some time ago for remote control of  
digital stills cameras.

Ian