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Re: off topic: dvd question



On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Erez Doron wrote:


I have never seen a 10BT nic doing more than 8Mbit/sec, and that was
back-to-back. On an operational network, I never saw one go beyond about
7.2-7.3Mbit/sec. 

--Ariel

> Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> >
> > Simple answer. Not possible...
> >
> > Not simple answer, even if u pass the decoding issue, there are so much data
> > moving to show the pics (and we're talking something that 100Base T won't even
> > handle it) so you can't...
> 
> AFAIK mpegII is 6-12 Mbits/Sec (which may pass via 10BaseT)
> my nics are 13Mbits/s so it should be enough
> 
> in windows, cant one just map-network-drive to the remote computer
> and run the mpeg sw on it ?
> 
> regards
> Erez.
> >
> > But you can try reverse engineer a software only DVD player program and do
> > something with it (and if you do it - port it to Linux :) ).
> >
> > Hetz
> >
> > Erez Doron wrote:
> > >
> > > HI
> > >
> > > is it possible to view DVD over the network
> > > (i.e. the DVD drive is on one computer and the
> > > mpegII decoder on another, and both computers
> > > are connected via ETH/ATM) ?
> > >
> > > is it possible in general ? in Linux ? in win95/98/NT ?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Erez.
> 

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