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

[Chuck Harrison <cfharr@erols.com>]

Hi, Lloyd

Lloyd Wood wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Chuck Harrison wrote:
[...]
> >  (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.

I was using "platform-independent" in a stronger sense -- e.g.
your HDTV media server or X-ray machine may not be running an
XWindows environment, and it may not be an option for the user
to change that. However, you *can* plug a black box into the
video output jack.

Cheers,
  Chuck
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