I have tried VLC and Realplayer, they both work ok with very small
video windows (i.e. scaled down) but anything larger just sucks. It'd
be cool if there was some magic that detected video and did something
even more magic to make it just work nicely. That way you;d not need
a special video player to play video to a SunRay, it'd just know that
this screen area was rapidly changing, assume video and the rest
would be magic.
/me orders one bag of magic pixie dust from Ebay
--
Leigh
On 19 Feb 2006, at 22:02, Lars Tunkrans wrote:
Hi,
I have been playing with video on SunRays over the weekend.
Server is a MSI K8 Neo2 FIR MOBO with a 4800+ dualcore
2.4 GHZ Athlon64 cpu
and 1 GB RAM.
Solaris 10u1 with SRSS 3.1 is installed.
Companion CD is installed.
I downloaded the Mplayer 1.07try2 source and built it with
/usr/sfw/bin/gcc -mtune=k8 -march=k8
Downloaded a bunch of codecs and built it so it Mplayer can play
MPEG , Windows Media, Real media and LIVE streams.
Downloaded the MplayerPlugin for mozilla and friends and Gmaked it.
Also compiled in Xvideo support to run on the Nvidia VGA screen.
Doesnt run on sunrays though. Xvideo in fullscreen mode on the
Geforce6800 is cool ;- )
Of the output formats that Mplayer supplies it seems that SDL is
the only one
that runs on SunRay. Xv, x11 ,or openGL does not work for me.
After deployment of the MplayerPlugin I can play video-on demand
streams from
cnn.com and cmt.com on the sunray. both of these are in
Windows Media Format.
This would not work on a SPARC platform I suppose because of the
X86 codecs.
When I play a video stream from www.cmt.com I seem to use about
a fifth of a CPU.
so theoretical maximum on this PC server would be 10
concurrent sunrays using video.
This should translate to 15 -18 concurrent videos streams on a
X4200
I begin to see why people on this list are moaning about video
performance :-)
How does this result compare to yours ?
Regards
Lars Tunkrans
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