Your point is correct that RDP applications would not benefit from this.
I am also not interested in rerouting video streams for applications
which are available today like mplayer.
Instead what I would like to have is:
1. A video server which takes care of the distribution of dvd quality
(educational) videos.
2. A solaris applications which receives the video stream and handles
video control (ff, rew, play)
This application does not decode the video stream but sends it directly
to the sunray firmware.
3. Sunray firmware which is able to receive the dvd stream, decode it
and display it on screen.
This whole INTEGRATED setup would enable me to use Sunrays for high
definition (educational/training) videos within any organization. At
least it is much better than saying: "we don't support full screen
streaming video on sunrays"
As far as I can tell the hardware is capable of doing something like this.
The software is the only bottleneck but if we really want to do this,
this can be solved.
Since the whole setup is server/storage based Sun should be happy to
jump all over it. I suppose ;-)
Ivar
Theron Dekok wrote:
I don't think local decoding is as trivial as it sounds. Even if the
necessary firmware was available to decode mpeg, how would you
redirect the mpeg data from the application (say mplayer) to the Sun
Ray? And, to add more complexity - how would you make an app running
via RDP do the same? Of course, even if both the app and firmware were
available this would still not help anyone watch embedded media such
as video.google.com
Cheers,
-Theron
Ivar Janmaat wrote:
Hello Jimmy,
At the moment I only have the SR 2, not the 2FS.
The CPU is a AMD Alchemy 1550, 500 MHz.
I think Sun chose this one for its ipsec and ssl hardware
acceleration not for mpeg decoding.
The graphic chip is a ATI es 1000.
I believe this chip has no DVD hardware decode options:
See: http://www.ati.com/products/embedded/overview.html
This is really to bad because the ATI Radion 7000 in the Sunray 1G
does have DVD hardware decode acceleration.
Sun could have used this already to improve on video support.
It rather amazes me that this was not done earlier because there is a
lot of demand for training videos support on sunrays in education and
business settings.
I am now hoping the 2 FS still has the ATI Radion 7000.
Ivar
Jimmy Fox wrote:
What CPU is in the 2/2FS? Would it be powerful enough to decode the
MPEG?
Jimmy
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