[MPlayer-users] Re: XVidModeExtension

[Tobias Diedrich]

Christof Buergi wrote:

> 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).

That's not true.
Xv for example _does_ work over the network.
And if your network is fast enough you can play movies with small
(100MBit) or even full (1GBit) resolution over the network...
This may be desirable if the target machine is an X-Client that can
_display_ the video fast enough, but is not powerfull enough to decode
divx or mpeg in realtime. E.g. my P133 notebook is too slow for
decoding, but can display small videos over the network just fine
(100Mbit, X server supports Xvideo).

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