> Waitaminute...what if we forget about X and make this a low-power=20 > low-cost VLC box?
What would dropping X buy us? Other than the effort of porting the X server to the box. Which will hopefully be minimal, since it will already support the OGC. > There already is an open source solution to broadcasting=20 > video all around your house. What solution is this? > VLC is available on multiple platforms, and can cross-code and stream in=20 > a variety of codecs. The pizza box itself could be a Theora (or some=20 > other chip, There are chips for Theora? > but if VLC is going to transcode anyway it might as well do=20 > it into Theora) decoding chip plus an OGC to generate the video signal,=20 > with maybe some extra logic in the decoding chip to do an OSD and=20 > process remote control commands. Perhaps we could even put everything=20 > in a single chip, reusing the needed parts from the OGC design. Are you suggesting that we could eliminate the general purpose CPU altogether? Can we get data from the Ethernet chip into this Theora chip without a CPU? I don't really understand your suggestion yet, but I get the feeling that it is worth exploring. Could you add a few more details? I skimmed the Wikipedia VLC page, and VLC seems to be a software media player similar to mplayer, xine, etc. I'm probably missing something. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
