From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chuck gelm Subject: Re: exporting a display Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 11:46:27 -0500 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4051E963.3070008@gelm.net> References: <20040312115414.GA7268@fede2.tumsan.fi> <4051C88E.90108@gelm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4051C88E.90108@gelm.net> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: admin chuck gelm wrote: > 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 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 > Hi, urgrue: > > Have you considered running mplayer locally? > > HTH, Chuck hi, no i havent, because the video source is miles and miles away. so i'd get a good nice black picture of nothing Hi, urgrue: I do not understand your response. Also, I am not familiar with "X11's export feature". I have run a 'remote Xwindow session': http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-X-Apps.html Perhaps these two items are different. Are you displaying a 'live' source, i.e. a camera, or a (compressed) file ? If it is a 'live' source, can you capture > compress > transfer > decompress(mplayer) and view locally? I was assuming that mplayer was playing a compressed file. Anyway, it seems to me that your are uncompressing a compressed file and then transporting it across a network. I am suggesting that you transport the data in a compressed form across the network and then uncompress it. HTH, Chuck