Dieter wrote:
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,
This isn't going to work for video for what we have sketched out,
although it does sound interesting and might be useful for transmission
of other information.
The reason that is isn't going to work for our proposed box is that we
plan on having the box do the decoding so we are going to b transmitting
compressed video already and you can't compress a compressed signal.
Sometimes it actually makes the data larger. That is, we don't plan to
put the decoder in the central computer. The major reason that I see
for this is that doing it this way might make it possible to get a
license for DRM since the box would be encrypted in and encrypted out
for DRM protected video.
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JRT
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