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At 11:31 AM 4/11/2000 -0400, Tom Coffin wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type=cite cite>good stuff.<br>
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question: It seems that the display machine struggles with all<br>
the vic info as it is - does running a master on the display<br>
eat more cpu than running a client?</blockquote><br>
Nope. The dppt master is a very low-overhead thing. It polls the
powerpoint every 50ms or so to catch slide changes.<br>
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Your display machine should be much happier now that Al got the direct
draw vic working on it, btw. On our display box we see free cycles on
both CPUs with lots of video up. There is still loss with many streams
up; our current guess is that we're running out of PCI bus
bandwidth.<br>
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<blockquote type=cite cite>(In the past I have run dppt's on a
seperate<br>
machine and have used a video switch to <br>
project the image during performance time<br>
for example: master from a laptop at the podium<br>
so the lecturer can control)</blockquote><br>
So you are just running with a single pane of the display machine? With
only two projected panes this would seem to severely limit the amount of
content you can display.<br>
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--bob</html>