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

[Timothy Miller]

On 7/3/06, Lourens Veen <lourens at rainbowdesert.net> wrote:
> 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...
>

I would expect so.  I've worked with a USB chip with a microcontroller
in it with like 1K words of program memory.  An ethernet chip would
need more program memory, but surely it exists.

If not, we should consider designing one.  :)