Displaying the image from the host PC to the monitors of other PCs

Question

Programming

Good afternoon

Tell me how to display full-screen images on the monitors of other computers from one computer? All PCs have WinXP, all PCs are on the same network. You need to display both static images and videos.

User story:
I'm sitting at the main computer. I see a list of available PC1-9. I select a PC from the list, chose PC1, specify the image to display, press the button, the image appears on the PC1 monitor.
I choose PC3. Specify which video to play. I press the button, the video starts playing on the monitor connected to PC3.

Googled - found nothing ready. I think I need to write myself, tell me what technologies to use for this.

P.S. I can write a server (on the main PC) and a client (for PC1-9) and transfer pictures / videos between them via TCP ... but is there a better way?

P.P.S. Another idea was to open the browser on PC1-9 in full screen mode and change the contents of the page, according to instructions from the main PC ...

Answer 1

Among ready-made solutions, you can try Windows Multipoint Server 2011 with thin clients connected via RDP or zero clients via USB to a central server.
Among the functions of Multipoint Server'a there is viewing the user's screen, as well as the ability to remotely launch the application in the session of the selected user, as launch parameters, you can pass the name of the image or the path to the video file.
As a final solution, you can make similar functionality using UltraVNC / RealVNC tools to view and manage the user's computer, as well as a simple utility like sysinternals psexec to run applications on a remote computer.

Answer 2

for classrooms there are ready-made software and hardware systems.
I don’t remember the name, but there it was possible to switch the keyboard / mouse and the monitor back and forth.

Answer 3

Trite: go to each PC via rdp

Answer 4

hmm… try teamviewer in demo mode… just need to deal with virtual desktops (monitors) on the server side

Answer 5

If you only watch (also free of charge):
VNC server and
Tasks on Windows - run connect to the server.

Answer 6

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