make_it_cool: kdelibs/kdemm

[Marco Lohse]

Matthias Kretz wrote:
> On Saturday 19 March 2005 20:19, Marco Lohse wrote:
> 
>>I just read your document and have one question:
>>
>>2.4. Domain constraints: if network transparent audio is important, what
>>about network transparent video?
> 
> 
> I took that as a given with most people already able to have the GUI (and 
> therefore video) network transparent using X. I guess this does bring up the 
> question of a/v sync over the network. So perhaps I should mention that 
> explicitely.
> 

Ok, you can use X/NX/FreeNX for having a network transparent GUI. You 
could even have network transparent video that way. However, if your 
source of media already includes compressed video (as in probably 99 % 
of all cases), it is more efficient to transmit the original compressed 
stream and decode it on the 'client-side', i.e. on the system that 
should render the video. Otherwise, you need to transmit an uncompressed 
video stream - and waste a lot of bandwidth, if the bandwidth is 
available at all - or compress it again on the 'server-side' - and waste 
a lot of CPU cycles. Similar arguments hold for compressed audio.

So, if network transparent audio/video is important for KDE, you might 
want to consider these options.

Audio/video synchronization over the network is only important if you 
want to render audio and video on different systems.

Have fun, Marco.