[MPlayer-users] using an other computer to calculate the image

[Ivan Kowalenko]

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On Feb 6, 2007, at 17.08, RC wrote:

> On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:56:53 +0100
> Thibaud Hulin <hulin.thibaud at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
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>> calcul operation
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> calcul ???
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>>  I'd want to use a slowly computer to watch a divx, and  it is  
>> connected by a network to a fast computer, by a ethernet cable.
>
> If your video is bigger than about 320x240, it's not possible to  
> have smooth playback over a 100Mbps network.  And even if you have  
> a ridiculously fast network, your slow computer won't be able to  
> keep up with the flood of packets.

Actually, I beg to differ. MythTV manages to stream videos ranging  
from 320x240 to 720x480 (ranging from 2Mbit to 8 Mbit) on my network,  
and in many situations (none that I've witness, but have heard about  
on the Myth ML) HDTV (as high as 20 Mbit) has been streamed over  
people's networks (I think they were 100 Mbit, possibly Gbit). It is  
worth noting that these videos aren't being transcoded as they're  
being sent, but this is a proof-of-concept situation. These machines  
weren't even that fast. My Myth system used to consist of a Celeron  
600 (256 MB of RAM) and a modified Celeron 733 (64 MB of RAM, an  
XBox). However, granted that if a lossless video codec was used, it  
would be significantly higher.

> You could, however, reencode your Divx video on your fast computer,  
> to something like MPEG-1, which will be easier for your slow  
> computer to decode.

This would likely be the easiest option to achieve.
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