Hi Andy! The problem is, I really need to be operating more or less in real-time. What's happening on the server is that I'm generating a lot of single image files. Pre-rendering would be an option if I could find some program that can take a continuous supply of image files, encode them to some movie format, and stream the movie to the client. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find something like that yet - and to make things worse, it would need to be open-source.
I really can't leave rendering to the client, because in the (far) future the rendering will become so resource-intensive that I won't be able to put that kind of load on the clients. Any pointers towards a program that could do this kind of live streaming from a series of images? Thanks a lot in advance, -Wojtek On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 15:48 -0500, Andy Herrman wrote: > You're probably better off sending the commands themselves. Your > rendering algorithm may be complicated, but sending commands is almost > always going to be more efficient (and as such will probably save you > on bandwidth). > > Calculating image diffs is kind of expensive, and can be pretty > complex if you're trying to optimize it. It would probably be easier > to implement the handling of the commands, since you already know how > that has to work, than to try and do image diffs (part of the > application I work on has something that sounds a bit similar, and > we've always wanted to add image diffs, but haven't gotten to it as we > could never come up with a good enough algorithm for it). > > If that doesn't work I'd go with pre-rendering. It would use more > bandwidth and processing (on the server at least) but would be a lot > faster implementation wise than trying to implement your own image > diff generation and rendering. > > -Andy _______________________________________________ [email protected] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
