From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chuck gelm Subject: Re: exporting a display Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:26:22 -0500 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4051C88E.90108@gelm.net> References: <20040312115414.GA7268@fede2.tumsan.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20040312115414.GA7268@fede2.tumsan.fi> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: urgrue Cc: admin urgrue wrote: > im exporting a display across a network. specifically, mplayer is > running on one computer, but displaying it across the network using > X11's export functionality. > it eats up a full-duplex 100mbit connection in one big gulp even > though the video stream is only being run at 5 fps (mplayer option > -fps 5). > i presume the bandwith is being eaten up by the exported display > refreshing the screen more often than the 5fps, i mean on the X11 level. > so, is there any way to get X11's export feature to "calm down" and > not try so hard? > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > Hi, urgrue: Have you considered running mplayer locally? HTH, Chuck