[MPlayer-users] OT Re: Using mplayer with NX

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 10:26 -0700, RC wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:01:02 -0400
> "John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan at opensourcedevel.com> wrote:
> 
> > Any continued thoughts about capturing video input for a thin client
> > solution would be greatly appreciated.  I should be able to spend a
> > considerable amount of time on this issue this week
> 
> Despite following this discussion, I still fail to see what the
> difficulty/confusion is.  
> 
> It seems pretty straightforward to have MPlayer installed and run on the
> thin-client, outputting to the local display.  
> 
> Transferring the raw camera data over the network to the server, then
> uncompressed video over NX, then BACK to the client again, would be
> incredibly bandwidth intensive, and doesn't appear to give you anything.
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Thanks for the input.  The difficulty is not mplayer; we are simply
using it for testing the concept.  The real goal is video-conferencing.
The video-conferencing application lives on the virtual desktop in the
data center.  The bottom line challenge is how we get video input from
the physical device (thin client, laptop, netbook, who knows - maybe
even a cell phone) to the application running on the virtual desktop.
The video output is then sent to other video conferencing applications
(many of which will be running on the same virtual desktop host) as well
as the originating NX client.

Perhaps, my instincts are wrong but I've spent much of my career doing
mid term IT strategy and I see this as a serious issue in the next three
years as video becomes an ever more important mode of information
exchange - John
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