exporting a display

im exporting a display across a network. specifically, mplayer is
running on one computer, but displaying it across the network using
X11's export functionality.
it eats up a full-duplex 100mbit connection in one big gulp even though
the video stream is only being run at 5 fps (mplayer option -fps 5).
i presume the bandwith is being eaten up by the exported display
refreshing the screen more often than the 5fps, i mean on the X11 level.
so, is there any way to get X11's export feature to "calm down" and not
try so hard?
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Re: exporting a display

urgrue wrote:

> im exporting a display across a network. specifically, mplayer is
> running on one computer, but displaying it across the network using
> X11's export functionality.
> it eats up a full-duplex 100mbit connection in one big gulp even
> though the video stream is only being run at 5 fps (mplayer option
> -fps 5).
> i presume the bandwith is being eaten up by the exported display
> refreshing the screen more often than the 5fps, i mean on the X11 level.
> so, is there any way to get X11's export feature to "calm down" and
> not try so hard?
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Hi, urgrue:

Have you considered running mplayer locally?

HTH, Chuck


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Re: exporting a display

chuck gelm wrote:

> urgrue wrote:
>
>> im exporting a display across a network. specifically, mplayer is
>> running on one computer, but displaying it across the network using
>> X11's export functionality.
>> it eats up a full-duplex 100mbit connection in one big gulp even
>> though the video stream is only being run at 5 fps (mplayer option
>> -fps 5).
>> i presume the bandwith is being eaten up by the exported display
>> refreshing the screen more often than the 5fps, i mean on the X11 level.
>> so, is there any way to get to "calm down" and not try so hard?
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> Hi, urgrue:
>
> Have you considered running mplayer locally?
>
> HTH, Chuck


> Hi, urgrue:
>
> Have you considered running mplayer locally?
>
> HTH, Chuck


hi,
no i havent, because the video source is miles and miles away. so i'd
get a good nice black picture of nothing

Hi, urgrue:

I do not understand your response. Also, I am not familiar with "X11's
export feature".

I have run a 'remote Xwindow session':
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-X-Apps.html

Perhaps these two items are different.

Are you displaying a 'live' source, i.e. a camera, or a (compressed) file ?
If it is a 'live' source, can you
capture > compress > transfer > decompress(mplayer) and view locally?

I was assuming that mplayer was playing a compressed file.

Anyway, it seems to me that your are uncompressing a compressed file and
then transporting
it across a network. I am suggesting that you transport the data in a
compressed form
across the network and then uncompress it.

HTH, Chuck


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