Am 18.01.2009, 19:09 Uhr, schrieb Siemen Baader <siemenbaader@xxxxxxxxx>: > Hi List, > > I am about to set up a video installation with one pc connected to > 18(!) screens playing mostly pre-recorded MPEG clips as well as a few > IP based streams and custom visualizations. The MPEG is encoded at > 1mbps (I think that is fairly good quality, right?) For 1680x1050 resolution at 25fps in MPEG2, you should calculate 6MBit per stream as I recently tested. Quality's terrible with lower bitrates then. Depends on the resolution and framerate of your videos. > > After doing a few calculations on the volume of the data streams > within the machine (pci & usb bus, hdd reading spead), it seems > possible to me to connect all 18 screens using mpeg2-decoding external > video cards via USB 2.0 (using powered hubs). > > So my question is: Do you know of any USB-to-VGA (or DVI) adapters > that can decode MPEG2 (or any other suitable encoding) in hardware > that will work with Linux / mplayer? Other media players would also be > fine. Haven't seen something like that, I only know of a USB to VGA adapter which is very cheap but also very dumb. You can hope to play a 640x480 video on it, but don't think about using two at a time. I've tried some things in playing multiple videos and my approach for 18 screens would be 18 players using cheap onboard graphics or 9 players with better graphics cards. But if you have success with 18 streams at once, tell me, I'd like to know ;-) Greets, Kiste _______________________________________________ MPlayer-users mailing list MPlayer-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users
