[Open-graphics] Re: X-video-server

[Lourens Veen]

On Monday 03 July 2006 12:24, Timothy Miller wrote:
> On 7/3/06, Lourens Veen <lourens at rainbowdesert.net> wrote:
> > > 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?
> >
> > Exactly. I'm not sure how far we can integrate this and whether
> > having everything custom is the right solution, but the idea is
> > that we:
>
> Where's your TCP/IP stack?

Conveniently swept under the carpet :-). You're right, I thought of that 
too after sending. We may not need TCP though, just UDP, unless you 
want HTTP streaming as well as RTP/RTSP.

> You won't be using a normal ethernet chip.  You'd be using one with a
> microcontroller in it and a tiny network stack.  Any other chip
> requires a CPU.

Do these exist? For a reasonable price? I looked around for a bit but 
couldn't immediately find anything...

Lourens
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