[AG-TECH] Question about Codec

[Ivan R. Judson]

Additionally, we are looking into higher quality codecs, both Larry's
OpenMASH and some other more informal work hopefully involving Colin and Co
at ISI. OM has a new H.263 codec that works very nicely, but the current
agvic has a bug that causes it to crash when it sees an OM H.263 stream, OM
also has as bob pointed out MJPEG support.

The other work involves potentially taking recently available prosumer
cameras that produces a MPEG2-TS stream via firewire at HD resolutions (so
the specs say :-), grabbing the data and streaming via vic shouldn't be
insurmountable; decoding might take a bit of horsepower, but at least it's
MPEG2 (decoders for which are seemingly embedded in most graphics chips
now).

Another place to consider looking it Linux Media Labs MPEG-4 boards, with
drivers for mplayer. We don't have this working, but would be happy to help
you make it work.

Cheers,

--Ivan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov 
> [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Bob Riddle
> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 8:11 AM
> To: dwkim
> Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Question about Codec
> 
> 
> If you use the openmash vic, you can use RtpTV to generate 
> mjpeg streams that the openmash vic will interpret. You'll 
> need very capable cpus on the AG display machine.
> 
> dwkim wrote:
> 
> >Hi all:
> >
> >We are wondering that there is any other codec not h.261
> >for example, Can We use DVTS(digital video transport system) 
> or HDTV in 
> >AccessGrid ?
> >
> >Thanks for any information
> >
> >Daewon kim
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> 
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