Thread: The noBounds Project
View Single Post
qole's Avatar
qole is offline qole
2008-08-20 , 19:28
Moderator | Posts: 7,109 | Thanked: 8,820 times | Joined on Oct 2007 @ Vancouver, BC, Canada
#127
Originally Posted by lardman View Post
The scheme demonstrated on that N8x0 appears (or rather we were told this is how the transfer is done) to use rather high overhead mpeg4 encoding (which is ok if you have hw assist) ...
So they use a high-compression lossy video codec? And what HW assist?!

I don't know if it is just a video stream; the OpenGL demos showed different displays (different numbers of fish and buildings), and they explained that by saying that the N810 doesn't have HW GL, but the noBounds project does. The Quiver demo also showed a different display on the big screen (more thumbnails than on the tablet). That suggests that they are not sending video at all, but pre-rendered data that is simultaneously rendered on the tablet and the display side. This is more like X-Forwarding, except they are displaying the data on two displays.
__________________
qole.org --- twitter --- Easy Debian wiki page
Please don't send me a private message, post to the appropriate thread.
Thank you all for your donations!