[MPlayer-users] Re: XVidModeExtension

[Arpi]

Hi,

> > 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

...but is fast enough to handle 1gbit tcp connection? :)


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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