good FPU needed on client?

[Christophe Massiot]

À (At) 17:47 +0100 20/11/01, Erik Sjölund écrivait (wrote) :

>Now to my question:
>Is the vlc floating-point-calculation-intensive?

The MPEG audio decoder is, at such an extent that it doesn't run on 
StrongARM systems. Jean-Paul Saman is currently adapting VLC to use 
libmad (fixed-point decoder) instead.

>Other questions:
>What are the advantages of having the vlc being run
>on the client in comparison with it being run
>on the server and displayed as x-client on the
>client side?

For an export display you will approximately need a 25 MB/s network 
throughput : don't even think about it :-)

>Are there linux supported graphics card that
>can decode mpeg-streams, and in this way off-load
>the client?

You absolutely need to pick up a graphics card which support the 
Xvideo extension. Hardware MPEG decoder cards such as DXR2 or DXR3 
are supported by other projects, see Xine or Mplayer for instance.


-- 
Christophe Massiot.