Re: [AVT] I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-avt-uncomp-video-00.txt

[Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Chuck Harrison wrote:

> Lloyd Wood wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Chuck Harrison wrote:
> >
> > > And while we're on the subject, a transparent RTP packetization
> > > for DVI (the digital flatpanel monitor interface) would be
> > > nice...
> >
> > why?
> >
> Two reasons:
>  (1) A generic ability to provide remote display screens over
>       COTS network hardware (e.g. 10GbE) is useful. For example,
>       I can imagine a platform-independent "black box" which
>       hooks to any device's display port -- e.g. medical
>       imager, workstation, etc.

I believe already X11 et al. already do this, so that graphics can
be displayed in a platform-independent way.

L.

>  (2) In a number of commercial high-bandwidth applications,
>       manufacturers are looking at DVI as a very low cost
>       box-to-box data interface up to 8Gb/s or so. However
>       standard DVI is limited to a few meters' length. Again,
>       the ability to packetize this and run over merchant
>       market 10GbE will provide a platform-independent method
>       to extend the usefulness of this type of equipment.
>
> Cheers,
>   Chuck

<http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/><L.Wood@ee.surrey.ac.uk>

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