DisplayLink makes chips that can uncompress losslessly, connecting a display via Ethernet or USB.
This would work for any type of graphics/video, not just mpeg. So we could put mpeg decoders, 3D graphics GPUs, FPGAs, whatever we like, in the central computer, They have boards for USB to VGA and USB to DVI. http://www.displaylink.com/products/index.htm Samsung is making monitors that you can connect via USB. http://xbitlabs.com/articles/other/display/samsung-sm940ux.html The bad news: Looks like they max out at 1600x1200, not enough for 1080i. Looks like you have to do the compression in the CPU. And you know what they wrote the driver for. Google can't find a datasheet. _______________________________________________ Open-hardware-ethervideo mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-hardware-ethervideo
