[MPlayer-users] XVidModeExtension

[Christof Buergi]

Am Dienstag, 22. Oktober 2002 21.39 schrieb Eduardo Trápani:
> The machine where I built mplayer has XF86VM support and
> everything works alright.  But every now and then I want to
> run mplayer over the network, to Xserver2.

That won't work. Every single X11-extension to speed up video playback 
relies on the fact, that the playing program works locally on the 
machine, where the movie is actually shown. Also, sending an 
uncompressed video stream across the network is enough load to bring 
your usual home installation to it's limits (or breakdown).

If you want to play a file across the network you may transfer it via 
NFS or HTTP (if your network is fast enough, that is). If it's MPEG 
movies you want to play, you may want to have a look at the VideoLAN 
project:

http://www.videolan.org/

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